"All I ever wanted to be was Grand Poobah..." Howard Cunningham
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Lyrics
Since the dusty day,
I drove away
from my boyhood Texas home
the hands of fate and time,
tugged this heart of mine
like an old wishbone
I never really knew,
where I was goin' to
or what I wanted from life
I kept a gypsy's code,
and each fork in the road
cut tomorrow like a knife
I oil-rigged in Oklahoma
wrangled in Arizona
ran a little bootleg whiskey
when I joined a travelin' band
,I left a red-haired gal in the sand
crying for me in Corpus Christi
then call it a crazy fluke,
one night I hit a juke
and downed a jug of wine
are bottles wishing wells,
well maybe time would tell
if most drunken hearts told time
but my eyes slowly blurred,
and I heard wispy words
as a genie rose from that jug
he wore a sequined turban,
the color of bourbon
and rode stale smoke like a flying rug
that bottle was the lamp of Aladdin
I could trade my jeans for satin
cos men's wants are mostly pleasure
he granted me one wish,
I could be famous or rich
buying trust and friends with my treasure
but those things are just wind,
so I looked closely at him
feeling sad and haunted
then I bowed my head,
and softly said
"I wish I knew what I wanted
"he said to me,
"so shall it be"
then vanished in the smoke
and I still love the last thing,
I saw in that dream
right before I awoke
cos for the first time in years
my future seemed bright and clear
though that dream was kinda misty
I hopped in my old car,
burned it like a shooting star
back to that redhead in Corpus Christi
