And now, friends, here's
Simon
Crumb with his rendition of
Little
Rosa, which he calls
Little
Red
Web.
Thank you very much.
Well, here it goes.
Ransom
Vine was his name, he'll never change,
he'll always be the same, you can take it
from me.
I'm a -walkin' down the street one day,
just comin' home from a recording session.
I walked eight or ten blocks from the place where we cut the record,
and I saw a big crowd
of people gathered round the street corner.
I tried my best to get through them, but
they weren't no use tryin' without pushin'.
So I started pushing, and I pushed the crowd
this way, and I pushed the crowd that way.
And I looked down at my feet,
and there lay my good friend
Webb
Pierce.
Tears started rolling down my cheek and dropping
on his forehead and woke him up.
I helped him to his feet, and he said,
Thank you, boss.
Thank you very much.
I said,
What's the matter, boss?
And during the course of our conversation,
he looked at me with one big frown, and he
said, people, they mobbed me.
They took me out of one of my four
Cadillacs and tore all of my clothes
off of me.
They thought I was
Elvis.
Although I'm not, you see, my thanks for helpin' me,
to me you'll always be, that good old