Best Western Motel - Saturday Night - original - sotu 630

Original song
she left her hometown,
Kept her hometown blues
Sat deep in her eyes
Best Western motel
On Saturday night
Ceiling fan can hypnotize

Kiss in the steeple
From Johnny B Bad
The chivalrous rescue
From Sir Galahad
Pony tail love
From pages ago
Ghosts are restless tonight

She’s out on the road
Sellin’ what people don’t need
Is your coverage all right?
Guess it’s a living
Makin stones bleed
Its hard to keep up the fight

Pennywise and pennydumb
She played both sides of the coin

Ghosts are stretching their legs tonight
There’s dashing Juan come into sight
He was the mechanic
With the high Cuban heels
Who danced the flamenco
Between changing her wheels

They even spoke once about
Having a kid
Then out of the blue he went back to Madrid

Outlaws got ponies,
singers got songs
There’s a hole in the world
that doesn’t belong
Best Western Motel Saturday night
Turns on the TV, turns down the light
She’ll watch it again that African Queen
And hopes that old boat
Steams through her dream

Her view’s from the cheap seats
But it’s still pretty clear
If you’re not being loved
You might just disappear

[charldeneschneier]

Brilliant!!! Well written and well performed. Thank you, John, for sharing your thought provoking song. 🌞

[chaoslibrarian]

Evocative storytelling, and an emotive performance. Great stuff.

[pabrizzer]

i love how you choose your words jp - terrific write and delivery

[lambda_miner_edwin]

Some great lines here. Johnny B Bad... restless ghosts... view from the cheap seats... and more. Good stuff!

[piekia]

wow, John. What a sad, sad story. Love your lyrics so much. The ceiling fan can hypnotize line really paints her mood so vividly to us. So many other great lines. And your performance is so moving.

[Renaissance-Man-Ukulele]

Hometown blues with an ache in your vocals. I hear you

[limousinlil]

Wonderful lyrics, John ... a really moving song!

[ThreebirdTrail]

Great lyrics! I really like this song and might have to learn to play it.

[Bystander]

Some wonderful lines in there John, beautifully delivered too. We don't have much need of ceiling fans over here :-)

[berniarmstrong]

Superb song and performance, John. This could have come from the pen of Jason Isbell - one of my favourite songwriters ever.
I've only ever stayed once in BWH - in Nashville TN.
You paint this story with light brushstrokes that get the maximum emotion out of ostensibly simple lines. This is my favourite of them:
"They even spoke once about
Having a kid
Then out of the blue he went back to Madrid"