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Wow! that is a great song, I hadn’t heard it before but here it is on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q85rPq1u9sc

It reminds me of my days when at 17 I could pass for 21 and finally got to hit the Airline Drive, violent bar strip in Houston that I had read about for years in the newspapers, where men died every weekend over whatever, or as the newspaper used to like to write, “man gunned down, or knifed, or beaten to death, over 25 cent pool game. You also learned that many guys kept their guns in the car or would fetch their shotguns from the apartment or their weekly rental motel, so you learned that if you had trouble with an individual and ran him off that you did not want to exit through the front door, but instead go out the back when you left or ask someone that wouldn’t be tied to you to go outside and check the situation.

The pool tables always seemed to be where the action was in the news accounts and so it was, in Texas in those days you did not politely put your quarter up and wait your turn. It was odd when I would come to California and everything was so safe and gentle, when I would hitchhike from one to the other to live for a while I always had to adjust, in California people took turns at the pool tables based on who’s quarter was first or who’s name was next on a chalk board and no one ever followed you into the bathroom to attempt to do violence or try to rob you.