I'll Show Me - Guy Clark

Ladies night at the Blue Gazelle

The local talent look alive and well

I’m all decked out with my slack britches on

If I don’t get lucky man there’s somethin' wrong

Caddo’s pool hall down the Rue de Nowhere

Eight shot loaded, yeah man, I've been there

Hey!

Watch this I said to the pool shark

I can make this shootin' man in the dark

100 bucks on an 8-ball call shot

Don’t scratch 'cause it’s all that I’ve got

I’ll show me, I’ll show me

Man seekin' unemployment

No gig too big to blow

Self-destruct for own enjoyment

Another knuckle-headed way to go

Blame a woman for the way I am

That’s much too easy, no thank you ma’am

How’d I ever get this far you might ask

I’m here to tell you it was no small task

Don’t need a map to show me where

I should be 'cause I don’t care

I’ll show me, I’ll show me

I kinda see myself as a young Richard Burton

Readin' Dylan Thomas to some Welsh coquette

Drinkin' whiskey in a Swansea tavern

Me and trouble are a sure fire bet

Well how about this then, I’m a suave bullfighter

Or maybe a war correspondent for the BBC

Why, I never felt my load feel lighter

Another Jameson’d set me free

I don’t want to have to feel or think

Bartender, pour one more drink

I’ll show me, I’ll show me

Simple pleasures that I’ve come to crave

Buried treasure in an unmarked grave

I’ll show me, I’ll show me

I’ll show me, I’ll show me