---the character "comer w.", I met in Santy Rosa while sitting in the back of my 71 toyota listing to a tape of Townes Van Zant..approached me telling me some crazy story that he knew townes...my thoughts...bs...hey you bum, next you gonna tell me you know jesus and budda...eventually he did introduce me to Townes in SF, who he knew from Nashville...Townes turned me on to the poetry (in book form) of Hank Sr...Comer was from Montgomery, and his tales told of taking Steve Young, after they had mecca at Hanks grave and drank 90 proof, down a road, a majestic southern road...Steve Young wrote SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD...there is something in us southern boys that the rest envy....comer w. was back on the west coast to make amends to his daughter who just finished highschool, as of 97, comer had 13 years in AA...like hank, townes slipped away on new years eve...
Down dusty Alabama roads,
Lester and Comer,
in Earls '49 Studebaker pickup,
like a ball of lighting they drove.
Lester doing the wheeling,
Comer sitting shotgun like a fat cat,
there tuning the radio to Virginia,
and Appalacian at that.
Lester drove faster than Flatt,
with Comer beating the dash,
Alabama rednecks in mid summer heat,
aheading to Montgomery's back streets.
Outside of Selma,
in a sudden Southern summer rain,
Redmud sticking to wornout tires,
couldn't stop this redneck fireball train.
Hank's a coming to Montgomery tonight,
the Wheeling announcer did say,
Comer beat the dashboard harder,
Merci Jesus, let us pray.
Two rednecks in a studebaker pickup,
high fashion in that day,
of Irish and Scotish ancesors,
their rednecks transcends till this day.
Beating the dash,
was more than a kick,
Hank's music was pure poetry,
to these Alabama hicks.
Setting the woods of fire,
for I saw the light,
to hear your cheating heart,
on a warm Montgomery night.
Driving faster than Flatt,
with Scrugg's "moon"lighting by the jug,
Comer pounding on the dash,
to the windowsill up above.
Swing wide your gate of love,
I'll never more roam,
these two Rednecks have kept their word,
for Montgomery's native son is coming home.
