“Although he can’t drive with a broken back, at least he can polish the fenders”
Reminds me of my late Uncle Eddie in the mid-1950’s.
It’s a good song. When I was a lad, my uncle gave me a copy of The Stranger. A lot of good songs on that one, including that one. It’s funny; there are a few songs on that record that I distinctly remember not liking, including Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, that I came back to years later and liked a bunch more. Say Goodbye to Hollywood is another song that I didn’t appreciate for years.
Despite his commercial success, I think he sort of gets pooh-poohed as far as his ability as a musician, I guess because he hasn’t turned out anything decent in a long time. But boy, did he write a bunch of really good songs in the 70s and 80s.