Tex's Blues

Photo by Charles Lucas

Tex’s Old Café Blues

Don’t ever work the grill in the old café.

There are better ways to spend your days.

The good old days will soon slip you past,

and a job like that it just won’t last.

If you cook something up it should be real good.

Cook enough to feed the whole damn neighborhood.

Serve it one time with a real fine wine,

just don’t spend your whole life on the cookin’ line.

The old café will be the end of your time.

Let it and you’ll turn hard to crime.

You’ll never make money or get very far,

except to spend your pennies in the next door bar.

There are better things to do.

Work a job that is a better you.

Take time to catch a simple clue.

Don’t do things that make you feel too blue.


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