The Last Waltz Page #2

' Looks like it's one or the other

' Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

16 years ago, when we started, we started

with a guy you might have heard of.

We'd like to start with him.

The Hawk! Ronnie Hawkins!

He called me up and I said

"Sure I'd like a job.

What does it mean? What do I do?"

He said "You won't make much money

but you'll get more p*ssy than Sinatra. "

' Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley,

have you heard?

' Baby's gonna buy me a mockingbird

Whooooo!

Big time, Bill! Big time! Big time!

' I walked 47 miles of barbed wire,

use a cobra snake for a necktie

' Got a brand-new house on the roadside,

made from rattlesnake hide

' Got a brand-new chimney made on top,

made from a human skull

' Come on, Robbie, let's take a little walk,

tell me who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Arlene took me by the hand, says

"Who are you, Ricky? I understand"

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

Argh!

Arrrgh!

Arrrrrrgh!

Arrggghhh!

Come on, Robbie!

' I got a tombstone hand

and a graveyard mind

' I've turned 41, I don't mind dyin'

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' I ride around the county

and use a rattlesnake whip

' Take it easy, Garth,

don't you give me no lip

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' The night was black

and the night was blue

' Round the corner an ice wagon flew

' Bump was hit and somebody screamed,

you shoulda heard just what I seen

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

' Who do you love?

Argh!

Arrrgh!

Arrrrrrgh!

Arrrggghhh!

Thank you, Ronnie!

The Hawk!

And the week went on

and it was a little depressing.

And it was especially depressing cos we

didn't have any money at all. No dough.

At one point,

we had no more food money.

It got to the point where, coming from

Canada, we had these overcoats,

big overcoats with pockets and

everything, and we had a little routine.

We'd go to the shopping centre,

all together.

- But I stayed home, right?

- No, you didn't.

I got the cigarettes.

I turned the cigarette machine upside

down and got everybody some cigarettes.

- Yeah, but that was on the...

- You got me some baloney.

We'd go to the supermarket

and a couple of people would buy

a couple of loaves of bread,

cos that was about

the cheapest thing you could get.

And the rest of us would be carousing

the aisles, stuffing baloney.

It'd be time to leave, the guy with

the loaves would go to the checkout

and we'd say "We'll meet you

at the car. You take the bread out. "

- Ya'll come back!

- And with these overcoats...

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