Mother Blues Lyrics - Grifter's Hymnal - Ray Wylie Hubbard

When I was a young man 

About 21 years old y'all 

All I wanted was a stripper girlfriend 

And a Gold Top Les Paul 

Be careful of the things you wish for 

You might get 'em 

There was a night club in Dallas 

Called Mother Blues 

It's where Lightning Hopkins played 

And Freddy King even payed some dues 

All the dealers and gamblers 

And young white hipsters, they all made the scene 

The girl at the door who checked ID's 

Was just 16 

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Aw, it was not a place for law biding citizens 

Jackie Jones he had 'em a habit, he just couldn't stop 

Aaid give me 500 dollars 

And I'll sell you my Les Paul God Top 

I drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue 

And I sold it 

I guess I should have told him 

He eluded to the police someone stole it 

It was just the first of many bad decisions 

I was to make for the next 20 years 

Oh, but I had me a guitar 

Everybody knows 

That the real nightlife 

Begins after the clubs close 

What they call after hours 

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It's 2 a.m. and everybody's gone 

But the band, the dealers and Jack Jones 

And then the girls from the landing strip club come over 

After they put their clothes back on 

So I'm at Ma Blues and I'm sitting on an amp 

I'm playing "Twist and Shout" 

And this tall drink of water walks in 

Like she might have to shoot her way out 

She come up to me and she said 

"You know anything good on that guitar?" 

I didn't say nothing, I just kept on playing 

She said, "Have you ever heard this song 

Called Polk Salad Annie?" I just kept playing 

She said, "Every time I hear that song 

My insides feel like warm butter 

And I just wanna take off my clothes 

And dance around in my underwear" 

I said, "Down in Louisiana 

Where the alligator grow so mean" 

That's all I knew of it and it was enough 

So we hit it off, me and this dancer 

We hit it off like a metaphor 

Like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb 

We was enriched uranium, super critical mass 

We was a chain reaction, it was love and lust 

Aw, mostly lust but a mutual attraction 

So there I was boys at 21 years old, I had it all 

I had a fine stripper girlfriend and a Gold Top Les Paul 

Aw, the future, it looked promising 

Oh but there were dark clouds on the horizon 

She was a beautiful girl 

But she liked to drink Tequila and that ain't all 

I come home 4 or 5 times 

And she pawned my Les Paul 

We broke up and she went to Hollywood 

She married an actor 

She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show 

And modern lipstick from Max Factor 

I got over her, I'm glad she done alright 

I'm glad she done alright, oh yes, I am 

Well now me, I never busted through the gates 

Into the big time as a rock and roll star 

For 40 years I just carried around an old Gold Top guitar 

But love and fate are mysterious things 

In this funky old world 

It was 20 years ago I ended up marrying 

That Mother Blues door girl 

We had us a boy, he's 18 years old now, he's playing guitar 

He ended up with that Les Paul Gold Top, yes, he did 

Now I don't know if he's gonna hang his life on it or not 

But I'm very grateful for the time I get to share the stage with him 

I'm grateful for the time I get to play with musicians 

Like George Reiff and Rick Richards 

I'm grateful that I get to write these old songs 

And travel around the world and play them for people 

And they come out and hear me play 

And the days that I keep my gratitude 

Higher than my expectations 

Well, I have really good days