playing music in a backstreet bar.
He sings a little flat and he never
learned to play the guitar.
But he keep s on belting out
"Long Tall Sally" and "Blue
He never faced the fact that he's
He's just an old rock 'n' roller playing
music in a backstreet bar.
He had a record in the sixties,
it was big enough to go Top Ten.
And though he tried and he tried he never
could make it happen again.
He's been living twenty years
Jerry Lee went crazy and Elvis died.
Then his third wife left him but he never
really thought it would last.
And now she ain't nothing but another little
But sometimes at night when the music
and the crowd is having fun,
He steps up on the mike with a gleam in his
eye and once again he's twenty- one.
And then it's "Be- Bop- A- Lula" and "Heartbreak
Hotel" and "That'll Be The Day"
Then the Sweet Bird of Youth
He's an earthbound eagle that nev
He ain't nev er gonna make it
but he sure did give it a try.
So go dye your hair and turn
And when it's time to go at least
You ain't never gonna be noth
Just an old rock 'n' roller playing
music in a backstreet bar.
Just an old rock 'n' roller playing
music in a backstreet bar.
