A Song to Be Shared

[theodosia]

You know, it takes a little while for some song to settle in with me -- I'm much more likely to immediately latch onto songs with a danceable beat than songs with great lyrics, I don't even hear them until I've had a while to let the back of my brain digestify them.

So it was that maybe two weeks ago that sdwolfpup posted some songs, which I put into iTunes and let rotate through my clever series of interlocking smart playlists... and then tonight I watch last night's Scrubs which turns out to be something of a clip show... and what do they set one of their clip show sequences to but that song?

And while I'd already rated it highly and liked it quite a lot -- suddenly I fell in love with it.

So here it is: "Diner" by Martin Sexton. It would almost be redundant to set a vid to it, since Scrubs has already obliged, but what the hell.

(Okay, I'm not taking responsibility for the grammatical errors of the transcript....)


You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum and Bakelite and glass

Like a locomotive they were streamlines
And the blue prints were drawn up from a dream of mine
Slap 'em up put 'em on the train
Out to Michigan up to Maine

You may find a diner down in Georgia or
Carolina off the twenty by the Piggly Wiggly
In the country out of Waynesboro

Or when it's getting late and rainy out in New York State
You hang a louie off the thru-way
And you go and grab yourself a cheeseburger
At the little gem diner off the six niner

Diner my shiny shiny love
In the night you're all I'm thinking of
Diner my shiny shiny love

The cruiser pulls in where the trooper's always stop
As we dine over the chrome and formica table top

The cashier she always squints
By the gum and the bowl of mints
She's tapping her toe
To the Dean Martin on the consolette
Booth service and a cigarette we're loving it so

Side of fries a dollar
Or the haddock plate two ninety five
A rootbeer float a pepsi
And be sure to save some room for some apple pie
Better make it a-la-mode

Chorus

Dean Martin god rest his soul
Talkin' to me from the cereal bowl
There's a couple from the show me state
Knockin' back a little meatloaf plate
Diner my shiny shiny love.

Comments

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

That is a perky, clever song. Thanks for uploading.