shitley&shirley
mike lazarchuk
Shirley’s wife Shirley
Said it was damn perplexing
When she’d pick up that ringing phone
“Hello”&a strange voice on the line
Would ask for Shirley
Said she’d ask right back
Would that be
Shirley or Shirley...?
Said her girlfriends knew
Which Shirley they wanted
& Shirley’s friends did too
Shirley’d married Shirley
After the war in Kores&they’d
Had a set of redheaded sons &
A daughter Shirley thought about
naming Shirley but praise the graces
That notion soon went by the wayside
Like so many of Shirley’s other outrageous ideas
Shirley said after 63 years Shirley plainly
Got tired of being a Shirley
Took a day off from the sawmill last August
& went down by the courthouse
To have his name changed to Hank after Williams Jr.
Hank’s old man being Shirley’s
Favorite country star
Right up there Shirley remembered Shirley saying
Big tim like Yoddlin’ Slim
