James McMurtry - "Ft. Walton Wake-Up Call" [Official Audio]
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- From the new album 'The Horses and the Hounds,' out August 20th (@NewWestRecords): newwst.com/hors...
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LYRICS:
well she woke up mad and she’s trying to pick a fight
got a phone to my ear ‘cause I’m trying to book a flight
and she’s crazy as a goddamned loon
and the airline’s drowning in the belly of the beast
and they’re all bogged down from the weather in the east
and we’re not going anywhere soon
it’s thirty degrees on the Emerald Coast
I spilled my coffee and I burned my toast
and the rent car’s sitting on a flat
the internet’s down and they don’t know why
and I damn near made the desk clerk cry
and there wasn’t any reason for that
she’s camped in the shower and she won’t come out
and I don’t have a clue what that’s about
I’ll just have to wait and see
can’t get online to check the bank
Twitter’s on fire, my stocks all tanked
but what’s really getting to me is
(chorus)
I keep losing my glasses
I keep losing my glasses
I keep losing my glasses
I keep losing my glasses
Georgia license Code B Restriction
can’t drive ‘less I got my specs on
double negative’s proper diction
in this North Florida redneck lexicon
ain’t nothing but Fox News fiction on
nobody’s showing the game I’m betting on
how’re they gonna build a wall with no Mexicans anyway
honeymoon’s over less than enchanted
gonna be driving back to Atlanta
she don’t like the freeway so we’re going scenic
Apalachicola and points in between
patches of fog on up to Sopchoppy
ten four driver we good and gone, copy
we’ll get home tonight or there’s gonna be hell to pay
roadside stand selling tupelo honey
you take you a jar and leave’em the money
that’s how they do it down here
but it’s cold and they’re not selling today
she’d just break a jar on my head anyway
‘cause it’s my fault we got such a damn late start
I was doing my part for my art and I kept losing my glasses
(chorus)
made the exit and turned up Ponce
and I’ll be damned if I know what she wants
but we gotta get something to eat
Majestic Diner’s our best chance
pork chop and eggs oughta save the romance
it’s maybe a mile up the street
my daddy told me, if you got any sense
better feed the woman, many years hence
I know what he meant and I got me a plan
but I can’t read the menu ‘cause damn I keep losing my glasses . . .
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This guy just keeps getting better. Rock n roll, country, folk, Poetry.
When your 60+ like me "losing your glasses" tends to bring everthing to a halt! Rather amusing song.
Just hit the big 6-0 myself a few months ago, can concur, losing the glasses is a bigger deal than it used to be
Blew the doors off in Morro Bay last night.. Best value in the land 27 bucks. Insane. Thought it was an acoustic tour... what a pleasant surprise. Best swamp bogie band ever...Tom Petty... Zevon would be smiling
Another wonderfully sardonic song by one of the best songwriters today.
I heard this on the radio today and it hit me like an epiphany, I finally get why people like country music
I'm glad to be alive and hearing so that I can marinate in McMurtry's works.
I get this song stuck in my head. I lived in Pensacola in the early 1990s . And I still keep losing my glasses
Love how startling the chorus is on the first listen. A legitimate laugh! And before you know it it’s your favorite track on a great new record. Well done James and band.
Just happened to catch this in the car (Sirius XM Outlaw Country). As a veteran of many trips to Ft Walton both via car and air, I can totally relate. Delightfully brilliant.
Heard this on the best radio station in the world, the mighty CKUA in Alberta. East of the rockies and west of the rest.
Best beer salesman ever. Can't wait to see him in a few weeks at "Continental Club North", Cleveland!
I interviewed him several times but it was the first time that is embedded in my memories
Guys like me will play this continuously, cause it moves along doesn't it, like a midnight ploughman on a snowy highway.
James is a treasure man ❤️
OMG. Just discovered from an old friend. Subscribed to this channel.. this song. WONDERFUL.
James speaking to me. I live on the Emerald Coast and used to live in Ft. Walton Beach, now I'm in Niceville, yes there is a place called Niceville. Saw James open for Jason Isbell a few years ago in Pensacola.
Aside from geography, he's talking to anyone of a certain age who habituates "select service" chain hotels.
Nastyville
@@daleellis7862 ?
A rich story!
Hey New West: Someone please make this into a video, thank you
What's one of the hardest things to find? Love JMM. JfOH
Just heard this on K-PIG today, great song.
Yep, that's where I first heard it. Glad they have it on regular rotation now. They love McMurtry down at the Sty.
I can so relate to this song. You've no idea.
See you in Milwaukee.. YeeHaaaahh😂
help why does this goes so crazy😭
I drove over from New Orleans with one contact. Lost the other in the waves. I'm legally blind and my contacts in the 90s cost about $300 a pair. Had to extend my stay and overextended my credit limit on my card. Whole trip cost me waaay more than I could afford.
So good. Don’t stop.
Fella gone. Gone. Brilliant
Just buy like 30 pairs and put them everywhere. 😹
In a word, tasty.
A segue to a curious verse
where hitchhikers never thumb the hearse
hands in pockets
everybody keep drivin
Of all the things between
needs and wants
i think we'd agree it's
as simple as fonts
Size up them letters
it can't be beat
you can lather you can blather you can rinse repeat
If you want me to buy your
identical bottles
You better ramp up that font
and take it full throttle..cuz
The last thing i want to standing nekid under that water..
is to be looking for my glasses .*
Philosophically speaking, this song wins.
The mix, even on a first run through with cheezy iphone speakers, sounds surprisingly awesome - the second listen will involve better things.
Top drawer on every level.
🍺😎🚛🚚
Awesome!
So good!
NICE !
Effn legend
I keep losing my glasses too
Bad ass song, kind of Dylanish I like it
Warner robins to pansacola by way sandyego
Not as good as his last one. Cringe at the GD word.