@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Well, the clouds didnt look like cotton
They didnt even look like clouds
I was underneath the weather
All my friends looked a crowd
Well the swimmin hole was full of rum
I tried to find out why
All I learned was this my friend
You got to swim before you fly
I got two girls
Ones in heaven and ones below
Oh, one I love with all my heart
And one I do not know.
Two lonesome dudes on an ugly horse
Passed by not long ago
They asked me where the action was
I said I did not know
As they disappeared into the brush
I heard the driver say
Hes a little slow between the ears
Hes always been that way.
I got two girls
Ones in heaven and ones below
Oh, one I love with all my heart
And one I do not know.
Jolly jane just lays around
And listens with her mouth
Shes had about a dozen husbands
But the last one just pulled out
Whos gonna bring her dinner
Through the weary years ahead
All shell get from me is sympathy
Aint got time to see shes fed.
I got two girls
Ones in heaven and ones below
Oh, one I love with all my heart
And one I do not know.
Its cold down on the bayou
They say its in your mind
But the moccasins are treadin ice
And leavin strange designs
Well the Cajuns say the last time
That this happend they werent here
Four Months full of penguins
And Im a-playin it by ear.
They didnt even look like clouds
I was underneath the weather
All my friends looked a crowd
Well the swimmin hole was full of rum
I tried to find out why
All I learned was this my friend
You got to swim before you fly
I got two girls
Ones in heaven and ones below
Oh, one I love with all my heart
And one I do not know.
Two lonesome dudes on an ugly horse
Passed by not long ago
They asked me where the action was
I said I did not know
As they disappeared into the brush
I heard the driver say
Hes a little slow between the ears
Hes always been that way.
I got two girls
Ones in heaven and ones below
Oh, one I love with all my heart
And one I do not know.
Jolly jane just lays around
And listens with her mouth
Shes had about a dozen husbands
But the last one just pulled out
Whos gonna bring her dinner
Through the weary years ahead
All shell get from me is sympathy
Aint got time to see shes fed.
I got two girls
Ones in heaven and ones below
Oh, one I love with all my heart
And one I do not know.
Its cold down on the bayou
They say its in your mind
But the moccasins are treadin ice
And leavin strange designs
Well the Cajuns say the last time
That this happend they werent here
Four Months full of penguins
And Im a-playin it by ear.
Lyrics submitted by Van_arsdale
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I think the last line should be:
Fort Woth's full of penguins And Im a-playin it by ear.
Beaumont makes more sense in the context of the verse. He talks about a bayou freezing over, and Cajun folks commenting on it, which points more toward East Texas and the Beaumont/ Port Arthur area along the Texas/ Louisiana border. This is the area where most Cajuns in Texas settled.