The Bar at Sorrow Point

Saltyjohn

My lyrics, set to music and performed by Gordon Todd:

The Bar at Sorrow Point
©2020JohnSchofield

Lizzy went in search of action
She found this old juke joint
Inside it she met Billy
It was the bar at Sorrow Point

They danced too close for comfort
To a sensual bluesy beat
Their bodies slick and sweating
In the Mississippi heat

Lizzy’s man was a roughneck
On the oilrigs all his life
He’d come home unexpected
Went looking for his wife

Found the bar at Sorrow Point
Billy sucking Lizzy’s face
He decked him with a back-hand
Dragged Lizzy from the place

They never found her body
But he’s rotting in the joint
Has a lot to answer for
That bar at Sorrow Point