Here are the words to the Fred Small song. Jimmy Come Lately Road and Lost Mountain Road are both on the map.
JIMMY COME LATELY by Fred Small
I pull on the choke, pump hard on the gas Oh this wheezing old bus is complaining The Dungeness winter is blowing its last It's cold, but for once it's not raining Good morning, Jennifer, welcome aboard That's a handsome new jacket you're wearing And hustle up, Carey, I'm closing the door And I'll thank you to knock off the swearing
CHORUS And it's Jimmy Come Lately to Lost Mountain Road The fog on the bay will be clearing And I'm crossing Dean Creek with a thirty-kid load And I'd rather be nowhere but here
I can still smell the sweat, hear the roar of the crowd See the team on the magazine cover My wallet was thick, the airport was loud Till the Monday I knew it was over My back had gone out and I lay awake nights As I diagrammed plays on the ceiling All those motel-room calls to my long-distance wife Made me feel like a junkie caught stealing
CHORUS
I've seen city lights turn a good coach mean Seen the pressure drive a family apart I've gone for the glory, I've worn the gold ring And I barely escaped with my heart Now, Patrick Delaney, I've seen the kid play God, he's got the moves and the shooting And he's already talking about UCLA While the agents line up for the looting
CHORUS
Now Mary and me we're a comfortable fit And the ocean here's running with salmon Evenings we go for a walk on the spit And on Sundays sometimes we go clammin' And I still get the offers and I just turn them down It's a wonder they bother to find me And I'll leave to Valvano and Lewis and Brown The wonders that I left behind me
CHORUS
Sorry, I don't know how to post the tune. So, does anybody know the coach's name? Or who Uncle Jack was? Kat-- it was at the Iron Horse. I was on the staff at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, living the life of misery for a year in East Longmeadow. Northampton was fun -- I wish I'd lived there instead. But then I might not be in Hawaii now...
Aloha, Mark
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