Written: Gallagher Street, Las Cruces NM, 1981
There used to be a wonderfully rustic bar in Anthony TX called the Anthony Gap. Knees played there quite a bit with Night Flight and got to know the owner well enough to ask her for an old neon Budweiser sign that she wasn’t using. He thought it would look great in his living room window at home, but it didn’t. It did, however, inspire this song about booze.
There’s a neon sign in a smoky little bar
It flashes on and off red and white
And the neon sign it’s the story of my life
It tells my tale a thousand times a night.
Whiskey beer and wine
Reads the flashing neon sign
Whiskey beer and wine every night
Whiskey beer and wine
Do you wanna know my sign?
It’s whiskey beer and wine.
Once there was a girl, aw but that was long ago
Before I learned to drink my blues away
And once there was a dream,
Oh I wonder where it’s gone
Let’s drink to it comin back someday.