Jukebox Blues (For Blaze Foley)

Hey honky tonk

You don't get me

To you I'm only some jukebox

In your room

Back in this corner

Where you left me

Playing all night

For a bunch of wild buffoons

Don't you think

I'd like a drink of wine

Sit up at the bar

And have myself a time

But I just stay

In the shadows

While cheap tobacco

Goes rolling through my mind

Now I was born

In some old factory

Where they stamped me

And threw me in the truck

They hauled me down

To Tallahassee

For 17 years

I've sat here in a rut

Don't you think

I'd like to go down town

Rent a Cadillac

And cruise it all around

But I know I'm never leaving

I'm only dreaming

And I can't make a sound

And there'll come a day

When I quit working

My back's been hurting

I know it won't be long

Yeah I can feel

The angels circling

I pray I go out

On a Merle Haggard song

Something like

If I Could Only Fly

Sing Me Back Home

Or Mama's Hungry Eyes

Mine was gone before I knew her

Some tavern took her

I wish we'd said goodbye

Hey honky tonk

You don't get me

To you I'm only

Some jukebox in your room