Ettress Rolls On

You couldn’t match ‘em any better as a parent
Sonny Ettress and Pamela Etchebarren
Fraulein with a loose set of screw pulls
Pale buzz come and dilate her pupils
He brought her back from a Heidelburg disco
Little club called the Shwimmenbader River Haul Ladies
They like the Euphrates
She liked to see how many shots he could knock back
Steal his wallet like a Mogadishu hijack
Lost her temper once and fired up his chainsaw
And that’s the girl he brought back to his Arkansas mama
For a little drama
Chorus:
But Ettress rolls on
And you never know which mornin’ he will open his eyes
Ettress rolls on powered by a solenoid switch
He’s a pain to completely revise
But when the light opens up and the sun pours in
He’s a thrill for a priest to baptize
When the night’s long or in the pre-dawn
Ettress rolls on
First year waitin’ tables down in Pine Bluff
Rednecks acting like she wasn’t good enough
She cussed em out in a west german accent
Boss fired her cuz he was hard as cement
Sonny got her on some calm down medicine
Told her hey I’ll break it off with your insistence
I’ll just love you from a distance
Sure enough she bought a house on the same route
They stayed married but they just couldn’t work it out
Some nights he could hear through the screen door
Down the holler she’d be partyin till past four
On occasion he’d drag her in his Bronco
To Jekyll Beach and a place called the Seminole Islands
Just to keep her smiling
Chorus
Ettress rolls on
Sonny Ettress rolls on
Ettress rolls on