Jack wrote this in March, 2006:
Relocated an old friend of mine on the Internet a while back:
Jerry Sires Band
Haven't seen him in 20 years, haven't been back in touch with him, but tickled pea green to see he's thriving.
Does my heart good to see that bunch of old rounders. That's Jerry in the hat. Mike, Dean and Pat have been with him as younger men a long time ago. Boomer looks like an older version of a guy who used to play with the Austin Lounge Lizards.
That truck is the centerpiece for the song, "I found me a trailer that matches my truck".
"And the tires from the truck fit the trailer,
The trailer matches the truck's graceful lines!
Tell me, who do you thank when you have such luck?
I found me a trailer that matches my truck."
Jack
From Red Grain Truck Blues by Jerry Sires
The yellow corn sure looks good up ahead inside the red grain truck.
It's piled high to testify that some farmer had a little luck.
I sure like to drive these country roads
Even though they're changing every day
But I always was kind of slow
And sometimes I just feel in the way.
In the city there's people getting by
Taking in each other's dirty clothes.
Where fine homes and big cars all come from
I guess nobody knows.
But Daddy needs a new golf cart
And Mama wants a new suntan machine
Brother wants a race car
And sister wants a full-sized movie screen.
You can almost hear her cry, you can almost hear her moan
As another garage door opener
Is torn right from her bones
Still, I wonder how long it can last
When the teeming millions watch and want theirs too
It's all got to come from the earth
And she's about done what she can do.
You can almost hear her cry, you can almost hear her moan
As Singapore and Shanghai
Decide to refrigerate their homes.
But the yellow corn sure looks good up ahead
Inside the red grain truck.
The yellow corn sure looks good
Inside the red grain truck.
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