“Ma’am don’t mind me I just had some time to kill so I came
in to join the crowd. Okay, okay lady, I’ll buy something, what d’ya got? Eggs
and sausage, hash browns, burgers and fries, jelly in a bowl. Eggs ’n’
sausage’ll be fine, you got a beer with that? Jeez, just get me black coffee
then. Hey Jack! Jack! Hey I been meaning to talk to you Jack, you know I was
playin’ ‘don’t mean a thing’ with Mac Alley and the Cats down on 6th
avenue last week when I almost lost my mind. I tell you this girl walked in and
she was mmm, beautiful, the prettiest chick I’ve ever seen, right in the front
row, and her minx eyes were giving me the
once over, man I couldn’t believe it! So I jumped it, pulled her on stage while
Mac was taking a bridge and did the twist with her right there, and man this
chick could move, especially in her cocktail dress with the little frills you
know, ‘frilling around’.
Anyways I
grabbed her number and called her the next day, hell I wasn’t going to waste
any time. Eggs and sausage? Yeah that’s right over here sweetie, and the coffee
too? That’s swell. Anyway, I took her to that fancy steak joint on 9th
and we hadn’t been in there five minutes till she was dragging me off to this
dive round the corner for drinks, and Jack she hit it, I mean she hit it hard.
I swear by the time my legs were swaying like I was doin’ the tango, solo, she
could walk the line straight and recite the alphabet backwards. I just couldn’t
keep up with her! We frenched and shot the breeze all night. She knew all the
great swingers man, the Duke, the Count, Dizzie, Chet, and Bird! We rapped away
and she fooled me man, I mean she knew me better than me. Mmm try this it’s
delicious. No? whad’ya mean you don’t eat pork? Your loss Jack. Anyways we went
back to hers and it was incredible, I mean incredible. Ha! I couldn’t walk
straight for days, and god knows what the neighbours thought, probably that I
was murderin the poor gal. She cooked me eggs an’ sausage the next morning and
we went through her record collection yapping like we’d known each other our
whole lives. I swear I was about ready to drop a knee for her, and her smile
man, I knew she felt the same- you can’t fake a smile like that.
After I
split to find Mac for rehearsals all I could do was think about her. I mean I
was head over heels- solid gone. I called her up the next day but the operator
couldn’t connect me. Tried again a little later and still that ‘buuzzzz’ of a
disconnected line. So I swung by her place later and the lights was all off. I
knocked on the door just in case and still no answer. One of the neighbours
came out and told me that she had taken off, gone busto, ran out of town in a
low hat, shades, and a Cadillac. Uh, yes please sugar, more coffee please.
Talk about the one that got away. I
know it was just one night, but I can’t get her out of my mind. I mean I’ve had
a few twists on the side, but ever since I met her Jack I’ve become a mess, I
mean you’ve gotta help me get it together. Cause I’m worried. I mean I’m
thinkin’ evil. It’s quite a thing when a man gets scared. I wake up in the
mornings, you know, long before my alarm goes off, with nothing but terror in
my gut and my chest. Too scared to go back to sleep, too tired to get up.
Haunted by her, and what my soul is telling me: That I know I’m alone and
dyin’, and ain’t got no one to die with, and that I never really had anyone to
live with either. Ya know what I mean?”
