Bar & Grill Poem by David McLansky

Bar & Grill

Rating: 5.0


Just another cowboy clown
Rolling into some hick town
Slowly nursing my left wheel
Lord preserve its belted steel

Just another Bar & Grill
Here to give a weathered thrill
To all the rowdies at the bar
Here to see a fallen star.

Where does all the glory go
From playing in the big-time show
When your time has come and past
A shooting star fading fast,

I sit and play the well-strummed tunes
In the dark and dingy rooms
Someone falls and breaks a glass
Someone grabs the waitress' ass.

I had some hits in ‘sixty-eight
Boy that year was really great
The money was just rolling in
What a year of blazing sin

Just another Bar & Grill
Think I'll take another pill
A pair of knees in the shade
Think I need a bath and shave

Having played my standard set,
Having booked my football bets;
Checking out the barroom babes;
A meal and lodging nightly saved;

I ain't complaining how I lived
I've done the wife and family gig;
Nights of beer and whisky sours;
Confessions in the midnight hours.

Just another Bar & Grill
Lord the whiskey that I've spilled
I don't expect to hit it big
Just pray the Lord, another gig.

Another night I can forget
The promises that I ain't kept
Another night of shame and fear
Playing for my gas and beer.

Just another Bar & Grill
A memory of star-struck thrill
Another night of my old tunes
Sung out to dark empty rooms.

The vision of a shooting star
Seen from the stool at the bar
A singing cowboy on the stage
Trying to act half his age.

And when I die, please bury me
Beneath an old magnolia tree
Near a lonely roadside tavern
So I can dream I am still traveling.

Another dingy Bar & Grill
Another smokey hazy thrill
Playing old forgotten tunes
To lonely drunks in darkened rooms.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Pradip Chattopadhyay 24 July 2013

wild west comes in mind and makes me feel nostalgic. a great lookback, David.

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