Mineral Wells

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by: Tom Russell

written by: Tom Russell - Frontera Music

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She was livin' in a cadillac

Bedded down in the back seat

On a back street of the Hollywood hills

With a shoebox museum of memories

Old photos and medical bills

She'd been a great actress in two dozen movies

Played Shakespeare on the great London stage

Before the three husbands, six kids and bad breaks

Of fifty-eight odd years of age

Him they called fat boy wore grey overalls

And he clocked in at four hundred pounds

With a passion for food and film magazines

He'd been a great critic downtown

He'd seen all her movies, worshipped her face

Heard her story and took her on in

Though she bore no resemblance to the star he adored

The film's over before real life begins

She told him of a fountain of youth

In the hot Texas earth

It'll heal and renew us

It's somewhere west of Fort Worth

And she met Errol Flynn there

In the Crazy Water Hotel

And they danced down the street

In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells

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So they boarded a greyhound in search of the fountain

Fat boy and the aging film queen

Through the Great Painted Desert and all across Texas

Amarillo plain to Abilene

They got off in Fort Worth for a fresh cup of coffee

Caught the local to old Mineral Wells

And it dropped them in front of that boarded up palace

Called the Crazy Water Hotel

Disillusioned they found a cheap room off the highway

Drank vodka from a styrofoam cup

There'd be no healing return to the past

The fountain of youth had dried up

So the critic and the film star held hands and drank vodka

As the great Texas sun rose and fell

And drunk but still dreaming they waltzed down the street

In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells

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They danced down the street

In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells

>From the album The Long Way Around 1997 Hightone Records

Live duet with Katy Moffatt

Transcribed by Greg Yuriy

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