Music Publications and Other Works
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Audio/Video
Publication Date
2006
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"Linda Lou" is a song written by Chris Durman, performed by Chris Durman and Steve White.
Recommended Citation
Durman, Chris LH, "Linda Lou" (2006). Music Publications and Other Works.
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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