I've been lovin' reading this thread. Spent one night in a Texas Roadhouse and it was enough for me... but that's a different story. Couldn't find this in the DT and figured this was as good a spot as any to post it. Thanks for sharing...

Kathy


CUT THE MUSTARD
Shel Silverstein

It was a sunny Sunday afternoon
Miss Dolly was havin' her barb-cue
And I just happened to be leisurely strollin' by (My, My he was strollin' by)
She hollered come in and have a taste
This stuff's too good to go to waste
You ain't tried nothin' 'til you've tried this sauce of mine (Hey boss her sauce is boss)

I said now I don't want to hurt your pride
Your cookin' is known far and wide
But I'm expected home for dinner so I must decline
But Dolly yelled whatsamatter Buster
Are you too old to cut the mustard?
I turned my silver head and I replied

I ain't too old to cut the mustard
I'm just too tired to spread it around
So I got to turn you and your bar-cue down
So leave me alone, I'm goin' on home
To the best home cookin' in town
I ain't too old to cut the mustard
Just too tired to spread it around.

And you ladies you're watchin' me sing and play
With my belly kinda flabby and my hair kinda gray
But I see you lookin' that old time way at me
I hate to see you get your hopes deflated
And I hate to see you humiliated
So before you storm the stage so shamelessly
Slippin' me notes and flowers and motel keys
Permit me to decline so graciously

You see we ain't too old to cut the mustard
Just too tired to spread it around
On every juicy little hamburger in this town
So leave me alone, I'm goin' on home
To the best home cookin' I've found
And we ain't too old to cut the mustard
Just too tired to spread it around.


On "Old Dogs" Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare, and Jerry Reed