Well, While this list is very quiet (When is Bill's new book due?), some
guys on the Townes van Zandt list just dropped the lyrics to Last Furlough.
Out of the blue!

Herve in Paris

"I'm not the kind of man with all the answers
But I surely know the songs that suit me best"

David Rodriguez, Ballad of the Snow Leopard
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"Last Day of the Last Furlough"


In the late afternoon
the sky and a calm sea join
And fade into
The dirty silver of an old coin
It's so still it could be morning
But for the heat held in the sand
We have the beach to ourselves now
The brown-eyed girl, the empty man
And she wants to make love
I want to drink
Drinking is what I do best


She rolls onto her side
And reaches across the blanket
For my cigarettes
She asks me if I've called my wife
I tell her no, not yet
Then she says, you can't stall forever
You've got to make that call sometime
But I just don't want to hear
A stranger's voice
On that end of the line
And she wants to make love
I want to drink
Drinking is what I do best


Back at the motel she takes a shower
I watch the last rounds of a fight
I pick up the phone, call a restaurant
Dinner for two
Someplace new tonight
I try to picture my wife
With her new love
But I just can't get it right
And I just want to do something
I do well tonight


--Bill Morrissey


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