Linda Lou

"Linda Lou" is a song written by Chris Durman, performed by Chris Durman and Steve White.

Linda Lou

-by Chris Durman

A dead string of balloons

Dangling off her rusty mailbox

Garbage bags of empty beer bottles

Waiting for someone to haul them off

Tire tracks in the front yard

Where the dumb ass parked

Who should have known better

And she’s out on her front porch

Wrapped against the rain in her old pink sweater

The parties over for Linda Lou

Her house is all trashed and her heart is too

She’s clinging to her sweeper like a boyfriend’s hand

Waltzing to the mopping by herself again and again

Now her friends, they’re not the worst around

They’re red-nosed, flea-bit, party hounds

Sniffing around for that party bone

Leaving in a pack when the beers are all gone

Cigarette burns on the sink

The whole house oozes that honky-tonk stink

She finds a pile of puke out beside of her tomatoes

And hopes they don’t taste like liquor puke later

The parties over for Linda Lou

Her house is all trashed and her heart is too

She’s clinging to her sweeper like a boyfriend’s hand

Waltzing to the mopping by herself again and again

Poor, sweet old Linda Lou

She knows damn well she’s being used

She just keeps hoping that one of these days

Someone will come to party and decide to stay