The Great Hank

Robert Earl Keen

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Then there was the time I saw the 
great Hank Williams singing on the 
stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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and he was all dressed up in drag

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From his rose red lips to his 
rhinestone hips he belted out song 
after song

E
as he drank from a brown paper bag

C
And the songs he sang of love and 
pain so pure perfect reflections of 
human imperfections,

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it damn near choked me up

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But the rest of the show, was 

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kind of slow And then someone woke 
me up


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C
Later on the Astros were silently 
beating the living crap out of 
Cincinnati on the

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TV above and a little to the left of
 the great Hank Williams' head

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As a busty suicide blonde waitress 
poured him a double shot of 
'whatever you got' and laughingly 
said

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"I thought you were dead"

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The pool balls cracked as he tilted 
his head back and told her how he 
had been a big star

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but now country music was full of 
freaks

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He sat there, in the TV glare 
Mascara streaked his cheeks


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When I was only sixteen years old I 
went from Houston to Abilene with a 
spunky stunningly handsome woman

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in a Volkswagen Bug

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She was grown with some kids all her
 own, a committment-free divorcee,

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and I was a man in love

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We had only one 8-track tape but it 
was of the late great Hank Williams 
and

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we sang in two-part harmony

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"Hey good lookin', how's about 

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cookin' Something up with me"


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C
Back at the bar they were calling 
last call so I gave the barmaid a 
credit card

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to pay up my tab

C
The TV was turned off and the stage 
was dark and the great Hank Williams
 was gone

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so I asked her to call me a cab

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She said if you like I can give you 
a ride, so there we were out the 
door

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and into the city of brotherly love

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Into the night, out of sight, In a 
VW Bug
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Composition: Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

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