The title is taken from his final TV appearance, an interview with David Letterman. As a tribute album, it's not bad and contains a few really great covers, but all in all, it was as I expected: It just made me want to go back and listen to my Warren Zevon CDs. However, I am a big Warren Zevon fan, so when I was house sitting for my sister a few weekends ago and saw this CD on her kitchen table, I borrowed it. how often are covers ever better than the originals? I'm not saying tribute albums shouldn't exist, however, since many are very good and give the singer's friends and fans a chance to honor his or her memory one last time, but still. I thought I'd go to Fresno just to see my friend,Warren Zevon is one of the greatest singer/songwriters our country has ever produced, but I never picked up this tribute album because, frankly, the greatest tribute you can pay to a singer is to listen and relisten to his old stuff, not listen to covers by a bunch of singers who probably won't do the originals much justice. My Studebaker keeps on breaking down again, "I thought I'd go to Fresno just to see my friend,īut my damn Studebaker keeps on breaking down again. This alternate ending is featured on the song: "My Studebaker keeps on breaking down again." "I'd rather work in the foundry than put fishes in a can." "And" is often removed from the beginning of lines. The alternate lyrics recorded by Jordan Zevon found on the albums Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon and Insides Out:
I'm up against it all like a leaf against the wind,Īnd this Studebaker keeps on breaking down again With less then half a half pint of vodka left. It made a sound that cracked my heart in half, I ran her off the shoulder and now the axle's broken. I was speeding south on ninety-nine when the manifold started smokin', This damn Studebaker keeps on breaking down again. I thought I'd go to Fresno, see my friend. This Studebaker keeps on breaking down again. I'm twenty-five but I haven't travelled far,Īnd I've spent all my money on this misbegotten car.Īnd I'm up against it all like a leaf against the wind,Īnd this damn Studebaker keeps on breaking down again. Who'd rather work in the foundry than put fishes in a can. I left my home in Monterey, just another no prospects man, Note: the text of this song's lyrics is not under the same copyright license as the wiki's encyclopedic text, it is used under fair use/ dealing. The song further describes his misery, comparing himself to a lone leaf fighting to stay affixed to a tree in a wind storm and noting he only has so much vodka left to comfort him. His simple wish to see his friend in Fresno is halted when his manifold starts to smoke and he breaks his axle after going off the shoulder of the road. He spent all his money on the car but soon grows to regret it. The song describes a young and not well travelled "no prospects" man and his fight to keep his Studebaker car running.
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