Gary Wayne Hudgins - Honkey-Tonk Heaven

I’m going back to the time when I was just a little shaver,
I crawled up on the bench, to taste the smoky flavor
Of the boogie woogie rhythm in my mama’s piano
In the livin’ room
It was an upright, outta tune, gap-toothed Kimball
She taught me how to play along with Jack Be Nimble,
The keys were my Crayolas and the air was my coloring book.
And she’d sing:

Now one day, I found myself eyeing the ladies,
My piano got dusty and my fingers got lazy
As I focused my attention
On the girl next door.
She was an upright, out of tune, gap-toothed hussy,
She wasn’t very pretty but I wasn’t very fussy,
She could roll all night
To the rhythm of the rhythm and blues. And she’d sing:

Now one day I hope to find an old man,
Standin’ in my shoes, moving both my hands
Across the ivory keyboard
Of a Steinway Grand.
He’ll be doing the boogie, he’ll be feelin’ all right,
Playin’ boogie woogie, boogie woogie all night,
Now once you get that rhythm,
It’s something that you just can’t lose. And he’ll sing:

Written by:
GARY HUDGINS

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