Getting out the vote.Ī gray haired grandma with flabby arms comes to and snaps a photo. He’s not an old guy making a fool out of himself. Just listen to you later.īilly Jo dances. I’d been wanting to see Royal for a long time. He hit the high notes without faltering one bit! And man oh man, does Royal ever still have it. Then they started "Burned Like a Rocket," which I hoped they would sing but never expected - as I am used to politician sponsored things to dash all hope for anything good to pieces. He says "We’re hear for the next governor of Alabama." And, "We’ve got some room up here if you want to dance." Royal’s playful as a young beauty goes out to click him as he sings "Cherry Hill Park." The band is tight. Old Ron Sparks is going to get some votes tonight, you can tell. Then she prisses away.Ī woman at a table beside me is standing and dancing. One woman walks out like he is an exhibit in a museum. Women are already going out to the front near the stage and kneeling down to take his picture. The announcer helps him put a red guitar over his shoulder - and for a moment it looks like Royal loses his balance - but recovers, and sings, "It goes to show you never can tell." I hear the bald bass player and others warm up and do a little hint of what might be "Down in the Boondocks!" So they do know where we’re at! Where we all are: down in the boondocks in Alabama on a Thursday night.Ī tall guy announces Royal and he comes out. He checks his list of what he’s going to sing. Be here for Ron Sparks and warm the old people up and make them shake their groove thing and go vote. Like I both look and feel.īut he’s got a job to do tonight. Could that be Billy Joe Royal? We always think of our heros as never aging. I look over and an old guy is hanging around the edge of the stage. There is little I can do, so I concentrate on the local front. I’m just a guy scribbling notes, and waiting for "Burned Like a Rocket," my favorite Billy Joe Royal song. It almost makes me wonder if it was planned. The man thanks him for doing something for him - I think it was about the pre-paid college mess in Montgomery, and Jack tells him he’s welcome, that "It was my duty." Sorry, I gotta be me.Īfter Page speaks he is walking by my table, when a "constituent" stops him, right there where I can here everything. Some people just don’t like what I write. I think he’s just in ignore me mode - as is a neighbor who passed me three or four times without speaking. I think he was mad at me in the past, but he didn’t look violent tonight. Politician Jack Page comes out and says some things to the crowd. I am wondering how many campaign promises I will have to listen to inserted between Billy Joe Royal’s two scheduled sets. Voters.Ī politician is saying talking about the democratic ticket this year, and the depression we are in, but basically all I hear is get something to eat and get something to drink and crank up the music, and we’ll be back later. Are people going to dance? I will have that question answered for me very soon.īilly Joe Royal’s people start coming out on the stage and setting up. There are no tables in front of the stage. Almost all the seating is "general seating," meaning people like me can actually get near the front - instead of having to sit in the back while the rich donors (think Republicans) get the best view. are at least getting rides from a Democratic candidate now. But he does give a ride to three black women - so I am happy that those who were denied everything for so long. So it’s all the way back out to the truck, and then another moment of asking myself, will the golf cart guy give me a ride this time. Then I go to the front and sit down at a table with a couple, after asking their permission. And I wonder if she would be welcome at a Republican affair. I see a lesbian I used to work for and we chat a moment. I go down the left side, just checking the place out.
#I want to hear music by billy joe royal free#
I go in the entrance and inside, and on the left they are selling beer, and on the right they are giving away free hot dogs and drinks. He gives a suit and tie couple a ride to the coliseum, but ignores the blue jeaned me. A suit and tie driving a golf cart is going around giving people rides. It’s a long walk to the coliseum from the parking lot.
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