Noirsville Tune of the Week

Jerry Jeff Walker - (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942, Oneonta, New York) There's a photo on the back of a long-out-of-print Jerry Jeff Walker album that kind of sums it all up. In the picture, Jerry Jeff is outside an old roadhouse on a lonesome highway. It's night, and his collar is turned up against the chill breeze as he hunches over to light a cigarette. His guitar is slung around his back. It's hard to tell if he's entering or leaving the roadhouse, but either way you figure he's got many miles to go before he sleeps....

Somehow, one gets the idea that that is how Jerry Jeff has always pictured himself. Even when he was playing screaming cowboy rock 'n' roll to thousands of people in the 70s and 80s, the solitary troubadour was always on the inside, looking out.

Someday I'll Get Out Of These Bars 

As I walked into a run down bar

The sign said a one man band

He was sittin' on top of a bar stool

A guitar held in his hand

And the lines he was singing 'bout a memory ringin'

I heard this old broken down star

Singing women and whiskey you know they will get you

Some day I'll get out of these bars

Chorus:

Some day I'll get out Some day I'll get out

Won't fight no more honky tonk wars

I'll find a song, and it won't take too long

Until I get out of these bars

Well I sat there drinking and dreaming and thinking

Of a time not too long ago

With those bars all around me, and those grey walls that bound me

And the years that went by too slow

And the songs that I sang to the blue sky above me

As I walked in that big prison yard

Singing women and whiskey you know they will get you

Some day I'll get out of these bars

Chorus

Some day I'll get out Some day I'll get out

Won't fight no more honky tonk wars

I'll find a song, and it won't take too long

Until I get out of these bars

Well I paid for my drink and walked over to where

He was singing his lonesome song

I said we're a lot a like guitar man you and I

But your sentence is way too long

"Some day I'll get out" he began to shout

As I walked toward that open bar door

I'll find a song, and it won't take too long

Until I get out of these bars

Chorus

Some day I'll get out Some day I'll get out

Won't fight no more honky tonk wars

I'll find a song, and it won't take too long

Until I get out of these bars