My buddy Luke
Is feeling low
In hospital now
For rehab and a fix of heart beat slow
He got a pacemaker
Installed last week
Just needs to get
His ticker beating right
Next week they shock it
And we’ll be praying
They get it thumping to perfection
Luke Weaver, special pal
We’ve had more fun than it’s safe to tell
We’ve laughed and joked and watched bird dogs
Wherever Bubba and Robin and Ricky and the other boys of the road
Turned ’em loose
At Chinquapin and Coney Lake
At Dixie (make that Livingston Place)
At Chickasaw and Avalon
At Wildfair and Pineland and Nonami
At Columbus and Ames and Paducah
In Arkansas and Mississippi
And in Oklahoma and don’t forget Jimmy Hinton’s Sedgefields
But better still at Sedgefields Union Springs
At the Amateur Free-For-All with Jimmy White
And at Mr. Hoyt Henley’s trial south of Montgomery
Where Ches Harris and Prather Robinson trained
And soul food cooking and home made biscuits were the best