Speedy Justice - The Graham Parsons Story

This here song's for Cecil Ingram Conner, the third
They say he changed the face of American music
His two biggest bands fired him after one year
He wound up with Keith Richards over there in England
Nine years old, Elvis Presley came to his school to play
That's when he made his career decision
Daddy killed himself. Mama OD'd on alcohol
He went off to Harvard University to study theology
Waylon Jennings claimed he was the only man to do more drugs than Waylon himself
Three times a lethal dose to one man and it showed
He spent a lot of time out there at Joshua Tree Monument looking for UFOs out there in California
Out there for days at a time, out in the desert
Wound up dead of morphine and tequila at the Joshua Tree Inn out there in California
Couple of fans stole his body from LAX airport
Drove it out to Cap Rock
Poured five gallons of gasoline and BAM
Cremated Graham Parsons
Leaving 35 pounds of charred remains out in the desert
Wasn't any law for stealing a body back then
So they were fined $750 for stealing a coffin and they were let go
They put a concrete slab out where it happened but park service removed it
They put it back at the Joshua Tree Inn
You can go see it if you want

Written by:
Bryan Bridges

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