Me & McAlevey - Walter Martin

Hey Mac, you’ll never guess what happened while you were away

What’s been happening to you started happening to me

I found your old letters

Shoved inside High Tide and Green Grass

Last night

And I hope you don’t mind

But I stole the opening line for a song of mine

And Mac, it’s true

If I could write like you

Well I’m sure sometimes I’d go a little cuckoo, too

I know the winters are hard in Maine

And your songs about lobstermen

Well I know they don’t pay

But it’s hard down here, too

Trying to make a living writing about snakes and cockatoos

And it made me mad

When they used your song in that Volvo ad

And you barely got a dime

I said «Mac, it’s not fair»

You said «Walt, I really don’t care»

As you filled out your W-9

I know your Irish heart is strong

And rich with rhymes and noble lines from ancient songs

But again it comes undone

And the dumb rum just rots your gut and twists your tongue

Now with a marble in my throat

I watch those ferryboats

And button high my long black coat

'Cause the season ends

And summer friends

Leave for the mainland

Yeah, the season ends

But old dogs like us, my friend

We ain’t going nowhere, man

Yeah the season ends

And summer friends

Leave for the mainland

The season ends

But old dogs like us, my friend

We ain’t going nowhere, man

We ain’t going nowhere, man