It was as open-and-shut as anything I have seen. He was a pillar of town, his reputation was clean. It was right before Easter in the first week of spring.
"She's a beaute, yes sir she is" said EZ DAN, fifty five, a bad age,. Smelling of Brute from Fabrege' and sweat. EZ DAN don't bathe a lot these days (and why the hell should he anyway?).
I grew up in North Alabama, back in the 1970's,. When dinosaurs still roamed the earth Speaking. Of course of the Three Great Alabama Icons. George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant.
Grandmother's wheelchair is sitting in the corner. We all sure love her but the little ones avoid her. 'Cause she's gray-haired and wrinkled, and her burden looks heavy.
Ain't about my pistol. Ain't about my boots. Ain't about no northern drives. Ain't about my southern roots. Ain't about my guitars, ain't about my big old amps.
George A. was at the movies in December '41. They announced it in the lobby what had just gone on. He drove up from Birmingham back to the family's farm.
This ain't exactly hell.. It sure as hell ain't heaven.. I love you like the dickens and I miss you like the Devil.. I guess I'll do my time waitin' in this purgatory line..
I got a brand new car that drinks a bunch of gas. I got a house in a neighborhood that's fading fast. I got a dog and a cat that don't fight too much.
There's a big fat man on a mechanical bull in slow motion like Debra Winger. And he gets knocked off and I think he's hurt,. It's a bitch facing facts and figures.
"They looked in the white house and capitol hill. They looked everywhere for buffalo bill. We called every scholar, reporter, and genius. Has anyone seen the president's penis?".
Then drink some more when the morning comes.. Memphis was sinking into the Mississippi.. We were doing our best just to ride it down.. Till the night G.G. Allin came to town..
I wake up tired and I wake up pissed. wonder how I ended up like this. I wonder why things happen like they do. but I don't wonder long cause I got a show to do.
It's all about where you put the horizon. Said the Great John Ford to the young man rising. You got to frame it just right and have some luck of course.
On the first night of my drinking I was looking for my keys. I was half-blind and stinking and bloody at the knees. I had a built-in-fever and bright red cheeks.
The hours creep across the face. As she paces across the floor. She can't even get to sleep since Tony went to war. She feels bitch-slapped and abandoned.
And they fell from the skies with the greatest of ease. And they landed on the ground under tents and trapeze. And they were told that they fell with such beauty and grace.
By the time you were born there were four other siblings. With your Mama awaiting your daddy in jail. Your oldest brother was away at a home. And You didn't meet him til you were nineteen years old.
The Reverend had his wife done in. By a guy I knew in high school. He and a friend should do her in. And make it look like a robbery. . "Here's money, son, go buy a gun.
I watched the rain; it settled in. We disappeared for days again.. Most of us were staying in, lazy like the sky.. The letters flew across the wire filtered through a million liars..
Now Sheriff Buford Pusser's gotten too big for his britches. With his book reviews and movie deals. Down at the car lot making public appearances. For breaking up our homes and stills.