Dear Abby - John Prine (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)
Dear Abby (John Prine, 197 Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2023-03-08. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"
"Dear Abby," written by John Prine, was released on this third album "Sweet Revenge" (1973) and then released on "Prime Prine - The Best of John Prine" (1977) (Whitburn, 2006). Prine explained where the idea for the song came from: "I was in Europe and my first wife and I stopped in Rome for the day. I wanted a newspaper and all they had was the International Herald Tribune which is all the tragic news in the world crammed into six pages with no sports results and no comics. And yet here's 'Dear Abby.' She was the only relief in the whole paper. and that's where I wrote most of the song - in Rome, Italy that is" (L. Hutchinson, performingsongwriter., Apr. 8, 2020). Prine's "Dear Abby" recording was recorded during a live gig at New York's State University (songfacts, 2023).
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Lyrics:
Dear Abby, dear Abby
My feet are too long
My hair's falling out and my rights are all wrong
My friends they all tell me that I've no friends at all
Won't you write me a letter, won't you give me a call
Signed bewildered
Bewildered, bewildered
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Dear Abby, dear Abby
My fountain pen leaks
My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks
Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed
If it weren't so expensive I'd wish I were dead
Signed unhappy
Unhappy, unhappy
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Dear Abby, dear Abby
Dear Abby, dear Abby
Dear Abby, dear Abby
You won't believe this
But my stomach makes noises whenever I kiss
My girlfriend tells me it's all in my head
But my stomach tells me to write you instead
Signed noise-maker
Noise-maker, noise-maker
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Dear Abby, dear Abby
Well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed just married
Just married just married
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Signed dear Abby
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