Lyrics The New Soft Shoe - 1973 Live Version - Gram Parsons

It was forty or fifty years ago
A big shot played with time
Mister Walker held the door
And both kept Cord and line
Watched and checked on every single day
Building his own special cars
His very special way

Ooh! The new soft shoe
Ooh! The new soft shoe

While walking through a southern road
I saw a shoeshine stand
A man was talking to a crowd
Holding slippers in his hands
Don't you know the same thing happens
Each and every day?
Did you ever hear a song
That's hard to even play?

Ooh! The new soft shoe
Ooh! The new soft shoe

Then a color TV broadcast
Snuck in from New Orleans
Showed me one more man who spoke
And wore bright blue and green
When you saw him talk his way
Was when he showed his claws
Spoke to people every day
Just to get applause

Ooh! The new soft shoe
Ooh! The new soft shoe
Ahh, ooh! The new soft shoe
Ooh! The new soft shoe

Right now we gotta take a break
Live and in stereo from the ultra-sonic recording studios in Hemstead
Was you there, just joining us, good evening
And ah, thank you Mr. Gram Parsons and friends for comin' down
A great breathe of fresh air on this spring night
By, by the way, that ain't Gram Parsons and friends
That's Gram Parsons and fallen angels
I was just gonna ask you to clarify that, would you do me a favour
And introduce everybody?

Well first of all, the girl that I'm singing with, is from Birmingham Alabama
Her name is Amy Lou Harris
And thank you for that, and the pedal steel guitar player is from
Toronto, Candana, he's name is Neil Fland... hey hey Neil
I love Neil, he's great
The guy with the green shirt on playing the drums
Is the pride of Ohayo, Indie Mark the second
Pride of Tenesey, playing the base, pride of the Franklin Sheriff's department
Mr. Kyle Tullus, and the pride of Colorado
The only thing he got going for him, besides the big curtain
Our lead guitar player, Jaque Barkley

You're wheeling around the country in a hell of a vehicle out there
That's not a hell of a vehicle that's a ... that's a bus (by the way we gonna aution it off), 1140
Great bus, big ol' Greyhound type? Yeah, that's a Greyhound
We've been driving all over the country in that thing, where've you been?
Ah, we've been to the great mid west and the great south west
Everywhere between L.A. and here
But I guarantee we really have been the blind view arkansas that's for sure
And don't ever go there, I wasn't going to, it's no fun
But do you enjoy doing it in the bus though? Enjoy doing what in the bus?
Yeah
It's been fun, every second of it
Gotta 8mm projector in it?
I mean we have to make a living, radio's ok but we can show some visuals
You wanna get the projector now? All it is is card tricks I'm talking about
Can't show card tricks over the radio, oh yes we've done that, Bob Kline did that
Is it true that you were a Harvard University Scoller?
No, ha ha
He was a Harvard dropout, that's better you know
A Harvard University dropout, well I'm glad you made it here tonight
I guess I've graduated, let's get back to some live music

Gram Parsons and the fallen angels, live on WLIR FM
We gon', we gonna do a tune now written by New York for Mr. Jay Gyals
It's called, Cry One More Time