North Dakota Flash
© Chuck McCabe


It's just a hard way to go playin' music when you know they don't love you in  your own hometown
And everybody told me that I had what it took if I could only lose that hillbilly  sound
I left my guitar in a pawnshop window got a ticket on that old greyhound
Packed up my blues and my other pair of shoes, Lordy, I was California bound

        They call me the North Dakota Flash,
        I'm a pickin' my guitar and talkin' that trash
        Got a little tune I'm gonna sing it for you all night long
        Yeh they call me the North Dakota Flash,
        I'm a 50 something year old overnight smash
        The juke box is playin' my song, I'm finally right where I belong
        out here in California, livin' fast and wrong.

I'm wearing rhinestone suits and alligator boots, I got a feather stuck behind my  ear
Singing songs like oh why oh why'd I ever leave the bayou while the band cries  real live tears
I'm singin' em out for the sweet sunny south and how I'm gonna make it down  someday
While I'm thinkin' bout my luck and all the folks that're-all stuck way up in North  Dakota US of A

        They call me the North Dakota Flash,
        I'm a pickin' own my guitar and talkin' that trash
        Got a little tune I'm gonna sing it for you all night long
        Yeh they call me the North Dakota Flash,
        I'm a 50 something year old overnight smash
        The juke box is playin' my song, I'm finally right where I belong
        Out here in California, livin' fast and wrong.

Instrumental:

Mama always told me I was bound for something someday
Well Mama take a look at me now, ain't I everything the law would allow
I got a lady gettin' paid just to open my mail cause I ain't got time on my own
She says from Frisco to Boston boy you're drivin' em wild,
 most of all they love me back home

She says the chamber of commerce won't give me a key,
The mayor won't show me around
But it's a natural fact that if I never go back
I'll be the biggest thing that ever left town.

        Now they call me the North Dakota Flash,
        Well I'm a pickin' my guitar and talkin' that trash
        Got a little tune I'm gonna sing it for you all night long
        They call me the North Dakota Flash,
        I'm a 50 something year old overnight smash
        The juke box is playin' my song, I'm finally right where I belong
        Out here in California, livin' fast and wrong