"When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am"
I hope and pray it isn't his time yet, loved some of his songs.
"Woke up this morning,
Put on my slippers,
Walked in the kitchen and DIED.
And oh what a feeling when my soul went thru the ceiling
And on up on into Heaven I did rise."
Or:
"While out sailing on the ocean,
While out sailing on the sea.
I bumped into the savior and he said 'Pardon Me".
I said 'Jesus you look tired'
And he said 'Jesus...so do you'.
'Won't you sit down son cause I got some fat to chew'.
Or:
"And you may see me today
With an illegal smile
It don't cost very much
But it lasts a long while. "
Saw him several times in the 70s. He's an icon. God bless him please.
Good lines all, but the ones that really hit me were a little different...
The olfactory reference in Paradise hauled me right there...
"Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill"
The incredible power in Sam Stone shook me at a critical time...
There was nothing to be done,
But trade his house that he bought on the GI bill,
For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
And then there was the story of Prine and Kristoferson finding some guy singing in a Chicago bar and bringing him in... and Steve Goodman had his start.
