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straight talkin’ whiskered man  
                  one stop 33

i walked into the bar room
just to hear the sound
pulled way back on the wooden stool
and set my body down

spilled vodka in my orange juice
‘twas flavor for my soul
an’ a stranger sat down next to me
an’ said, “man, your troubles show.”

he was a straight talkin’ whiskered man
never said his name
but he set me up with another round
of liquid lovin’ sane

he pulled a guitar from the side of him
and laid his troubles down
as he sang old songs 
of love gone wrong
on th’ streets of every town

we took the rails through chicago
and on up to smokey mount
from the eastern coast
to the western shore
was more stops than i could count

and then at last he looked at me
and said, “friend, where have you been?”
i looked at him 
through a wasted mind
and wanted to ask him ‘when’?

but i knew it didn’t matter 
‘cause my days were all the same
countin’ th’ thick glass bottles
of my liquid lovin’ sane

he sang a song i’d never known
but now i know it well
‘cause it was my path to the outer rim
of my liquid lovin’ hell

he said, “don’t you count on nobody
‘cause nobody knows your name
an’ if you smile and walk away from these bar room doors 
that’s how it will remain

always remember who you are
and never forget where you’ve been
so when the mirror takes a close up shot
it will reflect to you a friend”

well, i smiled at him as he walked away
leaving black coffee in front of me
and tears that ran across my mind 
made it so easy for me to see

i’d met a man who had an outstretched hand
like the man from galilee
who walked from shore to distant shore
jus’ settin’ broken people free

he was a straight talkin’ whiskered man
who never said his name
but he set me up with another round
that put me right back in th’ game…

so i sang. "jesus, you walked on th' water
an' lord, you healed th' blind
an' now i will never walk alone,
thanks for bein' a friend of mine."



©  tolbert
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