Anytime you're down this way, Dan...

Second verse:

In his youth he used to chase the autos
There wasn't any car he didn't know
And though he'd lost the vision in his right eye
He would always keep his left eye on the road
As the years rolled by and he grew older
He lost a little mustard in his stride
And so he was content to lie there on that mat
And he'd cock his ear each time a car drove by

This is where the second verse came from: from a chapter in my book titled Pre-Hindsight:

"After I rounded the corner, I was walking on the side of the road on a street without a sidewalk. There was a car approaching me, and I noticed a dog that was running Hell Bent For Leather alongside of it. As the car came closer, I realized that the dog didn't see me
and was about to run me over. At the last moment, he skidded to a halt, somewhat chagrined, and looked up at me apologetically, waiting for a good ear scratch. It was then that I realized why he hadn't seen me. He was blind in his right eye. He ended up as one
verse in a song that I wrote:

    Though he'd lost the vision in his right eye
    He would always keep his left eye on the road"

His eye was on the prize.

There's a lesson in there, somewhere.

Good to see you, frogprince. Nice story, too. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Jerry