Danny's Song

He'd play the "Orange Blossom Special" and he'd play "The Devil's Dream"

He'd hang in the air a melody like a barroom full of smoke

That bow would be going like lightning and his foot would be pounding on the floor like thunder

But I guess someplace in there a string just broke

And I remember well that night at the end of the tenth line

We were sitting by the water"¦.. must have been a quarter after four

And he pulled out his old fiddle and started playing

The wind wasn't blowing but all the trees were swaying

And Danny was tickling the moon with the tip of his bow

That tune he was playing I forgot the name

But I'd give my guitar right now to hear it played that way again

But nothing lasts forever and I guess that's just the way things go

But we've all gotta keep on dancing even though the fiddlers packed up and gone home

There's a fiddle in a box in my closet it doesn't ever stay in tune

But he'd rosin the bow and tune it up best he could then saw that sucker right in two

I'm gonna keep it that box in my closet and take it with me when I go to the promise land

And when I see him there I'm gonna ask him if he'll play that song for me again

Seems like an awful waste though don't it?

But I never did get too good anyways on it

I guess there ain't word's good enough for a friend that's passed on

And even if there were I don't think you could fit them all into one song