I'm sittin' in a bar tippling a jar in Jackson
And on the street the summer sun it shines
There's many a bar room queen I've had in Jackson
But I just can't seen to drink you off my mind

It's those honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme those honky tonk blues

I played a divorcee in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady then all dressed me up in roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind

It's those honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme those honky tonk blues

It's those honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme those honky tonk blues

It's those honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme those honky tonk blues


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    I have to go with 'laid a divorcee in NYC' - it just seems to make more sense when taken together with the next line. Poor Keef (for some reason I always see Keith as the narrator of this adventure) had to fend off an overly amorous divorcee...for a while that is...or at least until she produced her supply of the magical white dust and all was suddenly well with the world.

    If I really wanted to extrapolate and go out on a colossal limb, I would also say that Keith resisting her advances probably had a lot to do with his smack habit at the time. Heroin is a well-known sex drive killer. So what does she do? She counteracts the heroin with a nose full of coke and suddenly Keith's little guitar hero stands to attention and whips off a killer solo.

    john117785on May 18, 2017   Link

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