Monday, December 13, 2010

A Post-Modern Country and Western Song: Patty Melted My Heart



Patty Melted My Heart


I was sitting in the Hardee’s in Harlan, Kentucky

when Patty said we were through.

I laid my sandwich down on the table

and said, "Darling, please say it ain’t true."



I looked in her eyes across an ocean of soda,

I said, "Sweetheart, please don’t make me cry."

She said, "My mind’s made up. There’s only one question left:

You gonna finish that fried apple pie?"



(Chorus)

It was a fast food fiasco, a French fried disaster.

She sugar coated the truth, then left me soon after.

My courtesy card ran to two or three chapters.

Patty melted my heart.



I sat in the booth and tried to be stoic,

to accept my defeat with true grace.

I wiped away tears with the back of my sleeve,

left a big mustard stain on my face.



Patty paused at the door as she was walking away,

I’ll never forget what she said:

"Did you slit yore wrists when I went to whizz,

or is that just ketchup instead?"


(Repeat Chorus)

It was a fast food fiasco, a French fried disaster.

She sugar coated the truth, then left me soon after.

My courtesy card ran to two or three chapters.

Patty melted my heart.


(I published this as a Facebook note a couple of years ago. Since my circle of online friends has increased considerably since, I decided it would be fun to repeat in this space.)

6 comments:

  1. This was published some time back on
    rallsjennings.com and attributed to a Don Jennings.

    I think we may have a plagiarizing issue here........Randy

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  4. While we are on the subject of ballads, how many CDs did "Run Tweedle" finally sell? That was back in 2009 as I remember.

    http://rallsjennings.com/2009Site/June/RunTweedle.html

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  5. Sales were, ah, enormous. Stupendous. Hard to quantify, but let's just say, "more than expected".

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