Daddy's weird songs

I have so many soft spots for so many things, I feel like an old banana, ready to be mashed up and baked into Daddy-bread.

One of my many soft spots if for witty, yet maudlin country songs like "The Last Word in Lonesome is Me."

Another is this one:

I was playing it on the guitar tonight but was struggling to remember the second verse, so I went through the beginning a few times to see if I could get the hang of it, and after the second time, Madge started singing along. And believe me, it's strange to hear your daughter sing, "It was always to easy to find an unhappy woman till I started looking for mine."

I asked her if she knew what she was singing and I think she said something about there being a lot of unhappy women, but you can't find them or some such, it didn't make much sense to me. But, then again, the actual lyrics and the explanation I gave (which is clearer in the second verse) didn't make much sense to her. Luckily.

I drove to the park

Lord I searched all the bars

where I made out with love too many times

It was always to easy to find an unhappy woman

Till I started looking for mine.

Some beer-drinking devil

is holding my angel*

and I know what he'll do if he's my kind.

It was always so easy to find an unhappy woman

Till I started looking for mine.

Her note on the door

said, "I warned you before

"what I'd do if you cheated one more time."

It was always so easy to find an unhappy woman

till I started looking for mine.

Some beer-drinking devil

is holding my angel

and I know what he'll do if he's my kind.

It was always so easy to find an unhappy woman

till I started looking for mine.

*At this point Coco said, "Ha-ha. Get it? Devil - angel. Like the two figures on your shoulders." Works for me.