Old Blevins Lyrics - Singles - Austin Lounge Lizards

(Hank Card/Conrad Deisler) 

We had a little quarrel, she and I 

She told me just to curl up and die 

I crept out to drown my sorrows 

At a joint called no tomorrows 

Where the old man came and looked me in the eye 

Old Blevins 

I could tell he had some wisdom to impart 

Some story that was etched and burned and stamped 

Upon his heart 

Then his eyes began to glisten 

'Cause he could see that I would listen 

We sat there at that bar 'til nearly three 

And this is what Old Blevins said to me 

He said "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

In Tijuana blah blah blah back in 1963 

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

You should have been there blah blah blah 

Is what Old Blevins said to me 

I sat there and I listened to his words 

As they flapped around my head like little birds 

Had he gone plumb 'round the bend 

Or could I just not comprehend 

His lips were writing lines I could not read 

When suddenly, it all came clear to me 

As he said "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

Then crazy hippies blah blah blah blah no effect on me 

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

The great depression blah blah blah 

And he would not leave me be 

Old blevins was still talking when I seized my chance to flee 

Back home she's never known I'm not the fool I used to be 

Buy I know that a man and woman's lives were somehow changed 

By a loathesome toothless geezer, incoherent and deranged 

And my memories of that evening fuel and inner mounting fear 

That I might become old Blevins anywhere that they sell beer 

And I'll say "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

I don't remember blah blah blah blah blah blah 

Mistakes were made 

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah 

How 'bout them Cowboys? blah blah blah 

Like Old Blevins used to say 

Old Blevins