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Thread #172703   Message #4183200
Posted By: GUEST,The Og
07-Oct-23 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Julia just wants to go home
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Julia just wants to go home
Adapted for Texas football nights...the lady is now Sissy


Sissy Just Wants to go Home (?) …adapted from a 23 Sep 2023 post of an Australian Enda Kenny song on “Mudcat Cafe” by NightWing
                                                      
They’re peeling off labels, but still at the tables
…Sissy just wants to go home
She’s picking up glasses and knocking back passes
…Sissy just wants to go home
The old tavern’s shutters are down to the ground
A few drunken clods sing a twangy old sound   (…It’s a)
Football night in a small Texas town
…but Sissy just wants to go home

The fans and the players are always late stayers
…but Sissy just wants to go home
Forget the big tippers, she just wants her slippers?
…Sissy just wants to go home
Too long a weekend, with way too much sleaze?
Too many cowboys, who just shoot the breeze?
Somebody order a taxicab please …’Cause Sissy just…

Sissy just wants to go, out the door, down the road
Sissy just wants to go home
Sissy just wants to go, more than you'll ever know
Sissy just wants to go home

She's aching in all of the usual places, Sissy just wants…?
Tired of the grins on the boozy old faces, Sissy just wants…
?A warm bath is waiting, a book by the bed
?Sissy's got only one thought in her head
Tall, dark, and handsome, her horoscope said, Sissy just…