Do-It-Yourself Country & Western Song


I met her ___(1)___ ___(2)___; I can still recall ___(3)___ she wore; She was ___(4)___ ___(5)___, and I knew ___(6)___; ___(7)___ I'd ___(8)___ forever; She said to me ___(9)___; But who'd have thought she'd ___(10)___ ___(11)___; ___(12)___ goodbye.

1.    on the highway
    in Sheboygan
    outside Fresno
    at a truck stop
    on probation
    in a jail cell
    in a nightmare
    incognito
    in the Stone Age
    in a treehouse
    in a gay bar

2.    in September
    at McDonald's
    ridin' shotgun
    wrestlin' gators
    all hunched over
    poppin' uppers
    sort of pregnant
    with joggers
    stoned on oatmeal
    with Merv Griffin
    dead all over

3.    that purple dress
    that little hat
    that burlap bra
    those training pants
    the stolen goods
    that plastic nose
    the Stassin pin
    the neon sign
    that creepy smile
    the hearing aid
    the boxer shorts

4.    sobbin' at the toll booth
    drinkin' Dr. Pepper
    weighted down with Twinkies
    breakin' out with acne
    crawlin' through the prairie
    smellin' kind of funny
    crashin' through the guardrail
    chewin' on a hangnail
    talkin' in Swahili
    drownin' in the quicksand
    slurpin' up linguini

5.    in the twilight
    but I loved her
    by the off-ramp
    near Poughkeepsie
    with her cobra
    when she shot me
    on her elbows
    with Led-Zeppelin
    with Miss Piggy
    with a wetback
    in her muu-muu

6.    no guy would ever love her more
    that she would be an easy score
    she'd bought her dentures in a store
    that she would be a crashing bore
    I'd never rate her more than "4"
    they'd hate her guts in Baltimore
    it was a raven, nothing more
    we really lost the last World War
    I'd have to scrape her off the floor
    what strong deodorants were for
    that she was rotten to the core
    that I would upchuck on the floor

7.    I promised her
    I knew deep down
    She asked me if
    I told her shrink
    The judge declared
    My Pooh Bear said
    I shrieked in pain
    The painters knew
    A Klingon said
    My hamster thought
    The blood test showed
    Her rabbi said

8.    stay with her
    warp her mind
    swear off
    change my sex
    punch her out
    live off her
    have my rash
    stay a dwarf
    hate her dog
    pick my nose
    play "Go Fish"
    salivate

9.    our love would never die
    there was no other guy
    man wasn't meant to fly
    that Nixon didn't lie
    her basset hound was shy
    that Rolaids made her high
    she'd have a swiss on rye
    she loved my one blue eye
    her brother's name was Hy
    she liked "Spy versus Spy"
    that birthdays made her cry
    she couldn't stand my tie

10.    run off
    wind up
    boogie
    yodel
    sky dive
    turn green
    freak out
    blast off
    make it
    black out
    bobsled
    grovel

11.    with my best friend
    in my Edsel
    on a surfboard
    on "The Gong Show"
    with her dentist
    on her "Workmate"
    with a robot
    with no clothes on
    at her health club
    in her Maytag
    with her guru
    while in labor

12.    You'd think at least that she'd have said
    I never had the chance to say
    She told her fat friend Grace to say
    I now can kiss my credit cards
    I guess I was too smashed to say
    I watched her melt away and sobbed
    She fell beneath the wheels and cried
    She sent a hired thug to say
    She freaked out on the lawn and screamed
    I pushed her off the bridge and waved
    But that's the way that pygmies say
    She sealed me in the vault and smirked