Another night, another song, another legion showcase
Some friendly folk just out for fun, an acoustic disgrace.
It's little cash, but lots of fun spinning discs on weekends
I play a few and sit and watch the wanna be's and girlfriends
In between I play some songs on the old piano
It's fun to hear them sing along, and see what songs they do know
I've been doing this for twenty years, to take away the boredom
I used to tour, I was big time, in rock and rolls great whoredom
I had a hit, but only one way back in the gloaming
We never had another one, and since then I've been roaming
The song we had, it hit the charts and stayed there for a while
I hear it every now and then, and still it makes me smile
The guys and I had formed a band, way back in high school
We played a bunch of cover songs, we thought that we were so cool
We wrote a few, some pretty bad but one got attention
It wasn't great, the title was one I can't mention
Apparently another group had sung a song just like it
We had to change the words around in order to make it fit
We cut the disc, it found a niche on a country station
We were not a country band , but our song had hit the nation
"My Pretty Little City Girl" was now out on the airwaves
We'd wait and see if she survived and how the country behave
Nashville grabbed it first and ran, the song went up to twenty
In only two weeks on the air, the **** thing got played plenty
Another week, up twelve more spots..things were going great
We'd shot on up from twentieth, now we're were in eighth
Two more weeks, this was such fun...the song just kept on climbing
So we tried to write another one, and off we started rhyming
We made it up to number three, and there we sat for two weeks
We'd have a fantastic run, but there was where we would peak
We tried for years to make a go and tried to write another
But, we were done, we'd had our shot, we're back to singing covers
So, here I sit spinning discs at Legions and at fall fairs
They send us out to do our song, but, there's no one who cares
We're just a band of has beens now, of wanna be's from history
Even when you google us, there's nothing there...a mystery
You see it happened so **** fast, we only had the one song
We made the chart for two whole months, not for very **** long
Of all us five, two are gone, the rest we get together
We jam a bit, and play fall fairs, although we hate the weather
The song you know, it's in your head, and when we get to sing it
It's funny how most everyone, knows all the words and bring it
We used to play to thousands when they tried to get us started
But now we play to hundreds who weren't born when we all parted
So here I am, just spining discs and playing songs in legions
I travel all around the states, I've played in every region
But, when I play that song for them, and sing on the piano
"My pretty little city girl" is one I find that they know
I never say I wrote it, just it's one I like to do
But, every time I play it, it sounds as if it's new
And after I go back and play requests left by my side
Like "Penny Lane", 'The Gambler" and "Magic Carpet Ride"
I play what people ask for and sometimes I give a twirl
I play an old scratched version Of "My Pretty..do dah girl"
I sit back and I smile as I watch them dance along
Not knowing that I'm sitting here, the writer of the song
I'm a one hit wonder superman, riding off into the mist
Thinking of the songs I could have wrote and all the girls I kissed
My past,it still surrounds me ....I can't imagine what I'd do
Just think about it people....what if we reached number two?
so, another night, another song, an empty legion hall
My life is full of music and yes....my life has been a ball !!!