Amy Allison
&
Don Heffington
From ANDRAS JONES: AMY ALLISON joins us for a Pop Oracle session with DON HEFFINGTON about 9 years after her father Mose Allison was on the show. Don, Amy and Sheldon Gomberg are currently putting the finishing touches on a Mose Allison tribute record that features a duet between Amy and Elvis Costello on Mose’s song “Monsters Of The Id”. Amy’s question about the future of her own songs is one I think any songwriter, even the very successful ones, must ask sometime. The answer, a song about an alcoholic veteran, suggests that we, like he, will take our pleasures where we find them in this cruel world.
FLYING OVER FLAGSTAFF
(Don Heffington)
FLYIN OVER FLAGSTAFF
GETTIN BACK FROM BAGHDAD
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME
ME AND MY COUSIN
WE’RE GONNA SOON BE BUZZIN’
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME
I GET DISTRACTED BY THE RINGING IN MY EARS
SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE IT’S ALL THAT I CAN HEAR
MY WIFE SHE SCREAMED AND TOLD ME “STAY AWAY FROM HERE”
I SHOT THE WINDOW OUT AND DRANK 3 SIX PACKS OF BEER
BUT WHEN THE COPS COME
THEY TREAT ME LIKE SOME RUM DUM
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME
DOWN BY THE ROADSIDE
THAT WAS WHERE THAT KID DIED
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME
BUT OVER IN FALLUJAH
THEY SAY THAT ANNY LITTLE DUDE CAN DO YA
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME
I DID SOME TARGET PRACTICE SHOOTING AT A MIRROR
TILL I GOT DISTRACTED BY THE BUZZING IN MY EAR
MY WIFE SHE SCREAMED AND TOLD ME “STAY AWAY FROM HERE”
SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE THAT’S ALL I EVER HEAR
GOT MY FATIGUES ON
BUT WHERE HAS ALL THE WEED GONE?
HAPPY GO LUCKY ME
MY CAR GOT BENT UP…I’M GONNA GET SET UP
OVER BY THE STEEPLE THERE’S A LOTTA BAD PEOPLE BUT
HAPPY GO LUCKY…HAPPY GO LUCKY…HAPPY GO LUCKY ME
