WEIRDEST ASSOCIATION EVER...

Wow! Sam Bush and Diamond Lil'? Really?!?


Diamond Lil' is an old drag queen from Atlanta and Sam Bush is a standard in the Blue Grass circuit on the west coast. He has a song about her. Fascinating...check out the lyrics...


Spider John is my name, friends

I'm in between freights, and I sure would be obliged

If I could share your company.

I'm on my way to nowhere; I been runnin' from my past,

Runnin' from the things I used to be.


Now I know my words sound strange to you

But if you'll wait till my song is sung and my story's told

You might come to understand

Why I'm old and bent and devil spent, and a-runnin' out of time

When not long ago I held a royal flush in my hand.


Chorus:

Oh, I was a supermarket fool; I was a motorbank stool pigeon,

Robbin' my own time.

I thought I'd lost my blues, yes, I thought I'd paid my dues

And I thought I'd found a life to suit my style.

And I was Spider John, the robberman

Long, tall, and handsome,

Yes, I was Spider John with a loaded hand

Takin' ransom.


And then one day I met Diamond Lil


And she was as sweet a thing, I declare, as the summer wind

Had ever blown my way.

Lil she had no idea of my illustrious occupation,

She thought I was a saint and not a sinner gone astray



Spider he loved his Lily so much

He could not confess his sins, for he knew if he did

The lady would surely take her leave.

But you know that the word got around, and Lily left town

And he never saw her again,

Tossin' and turnin' and causin' his heart to grieve.

Chorus

And that is all my story.

It's been these thirty years since I took the road

To find my precious jewel one.

Now if you see my Lily, won't you give her my regards,

Tell her old Spider got tangled in the black web that he spun

You can tell her that Spider got tangled in the black web that he spun.


Awesomeness!