by Kerry Singleton |
Categories:
love, me,
Your honky tonk don't cut it no more
all this misery you put me through
your whiskey breath, your cheatin ways
a cowboy gone astray, too many chances
& still you don't see
so get ya boots on honey & be sure to close the door
lovin you is over
your bad boy days & wicked ways don't win me
you wear the devils grin, full of evil sin
what used to be a man, now stands before me a drunken fool
full of sorrow your all washed up
your stumblin words can't save you now
so turn up the juke box baby
this love has played it's last tune...
by Sonia Walker |
Categories:
music,
Greasy hair under his baseball cap,
day-old stubble on his double chin,
he picks away on his Gibson guitar,
eyes half shut easing the guilt
of leaving his family behind.
Miles of road ahead of him,
rain hits the windows of the tour bus,
he's seen them all----the farmlands,
mountains, deserts, woodlands
and skyscraper cities.
Booze and smoke cloud his brain,
he can't remember when he had a
home-cooked meal last,
he's played in all the honky-tonk dives
from here to there where he still
smiles at the pretty women who
give him the eye cause they love his
music and masculinity,
he's the guitar player.
by Sand Blown |
Categories:
song, sound, word play,
midnight rambler!?....mmmm....gimme shelter....sympathy!....for.....
the devil! angie.....i.....can't get no satisfaction....you....
can't always....get what you want....time?....time is on my side....
it's only rock and roll.....to me?....tumbling dice!....
can't you hear me knockin?.....honky tonk! woman....start me up....
crazy moma waiting on a....friend beast....of burden....flash!....
sticky fingers.....all down the line....if you can't rock me....
like a rolling stone....shake your hips....shine a light....
you don't have to mean it susie q......you can make it.....
if you try long while.....under cover of....the night love train....
stan sand
by Larry Bradfield |
Categories:
age,
Sittin' in a honky tonk he'd just turned forty two
Scratched the label off a beer he'd nothin' else to do
Thought about his life 'til now - he'd just turned middle age
Coulda done some better things if money was the guage
There were things that he would change and some he could forget
But he knew it was half done and he could change it yet
His memory flashed back to blue eyes and golden hair
The tears and the laughter and the love they used to share
She is now a granny with a family of her own
And he's tearin' labels as he sits here all alone
He smiles at the honky tonk it's home as he can see
He will have a beer or two when he is forty three
4-4-18
by Kenneth Birlin |
Categories:
parody,
In The Still Of The Night
Don’t Be Cruel
Gimme, Gimme Good Lovin’
That’ll Be The Day
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
This Magic Moment
Peggy Sue
You Really Got Me
All Shook Up
I Wonder If She Loves Me
In The Midnight Hour
Last Kiss
Never My Love
It’s Only Make Believe
Goodnight, Sweetheart Goodnight
Call It Stormy Monday
Honky Tonk Woman
You Cheated
All Summer Long
This Time (We’re Really Breaking Up)
by Larry Bradfield |
Categories:
lost love,
He played guitar in a Texas tavern -
Could have been famous but for her brown eyes.
He loved her more than his music could tell.
He smiled and played while he swallowed her lies.
There came a time when her brown eyes wandered -
Settled on a drifter from San Antone.
Now he plays guitar in Huntsville prison -
His brown eyed lover is sleeping alone.
He used to play in a Texas tavern -
Just a lowdown honky tonk so they say.
He had great talent 'til he did murder -
He let brown eyes and lies get in his way.
6-8-18
by Larry Bradfield |
Categories:
Her eyes were blue
Her flaws were few
As she lay with her head on my pillow
The day was lost
'Til our paths crossed
In the sandy streets of Amarillo
I took a chance
Asked her to dance
In a honky tonk just outside of town
We danced to swing
When it was king
In this old roadhouse where they love the sound
We made a plan
To meet again
On the full moon 'neath the weepimg willow
But came the dawn
And she was gone -
I wait 'neath a tree in Amarillo
5/11/2017
For contest Easy by Skat A