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John Mellencamp — Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
Album: Mr. Happy Go Lucky
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Released: 1996
Length: 4:50
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In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners
At the Hotel Flamingo, wearin black market shoes
This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon
No one wants to be lonely, no one wants to sing the blues

She's perched like a parrot on his tuxedo shoulder
Christ, what's she doing with him she could be dancing with me
She stirs the ice in her glass with her elegant finger
I want to be what she's drinking, yeah I just want to be

I saw you first
I'm the first one tonight
I saw you first
Don't that give me the right
To move around in your heart
Everyone was lookin
But I saw you first

On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo
Gypsy Scotty is driving his big long yellow car
She flies like a bird over his shoulder
Se whispers in his ear, boy, you are my star

But I saw you first
I'm the first one tonight
Yes I saw you first
Don't that give me the right
To move around in your heart
Everyone was lookin.....

In the bone colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singin'
The radio is playin, she left her shoes out in the back
He tells me a story about some girl he knows in Kentucky
He just made that story up, there ain't no girl like that

But I saw you first
I'm the first one tonight
Yes I saw you first
Don't that give me the right
To move around in your heart
Everyone was lookin
But I saw you first
I saw you first
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Very u·nique song to me..
Posted 7 months ago by ray_killeen    [ Reply ]
 rdo wrote:
{#Lol}  I have to admit I love this song.

 
Me too!
Posted 9 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
It is an underrated album.  My fav song on it is Just Another Day...
Posted 10 years ago by midigitguy    [ Reply ]
"Don’t let this club membership change you, John. Stay ornery, stay mean. We need you to be pissed off, and restless, because no matter what they tell us—we know, this country is going to hell in a handcart. This country’s been hijacked. You know it and I know it. People are worried. People are scared, and people are angry. People need to hear a voice like yours that’s out there to echo the discontent that’s out there in the heartland. They need to hear stories about it. They need to hear stories about frustration, alienation and desperation. They need to know that somewhere out there somebody feels the way that they do, in the small towns and in the big cities. They need to hear it. And it doesn’t matter if they hear it on a jukebox, in the local gin mill, or in a goddamn truck commercial, because they ain’t gonna hear it on the radio anymore. They don’t care how they hear it, as long as they hear it good and loud and clear the way you’ve always been saying it all along. You’re right, John, this is still our country"   Bliiy  Joel 's induction speech R&R Hall of Fame .
                                                                                                                                            you will hear it here                                                                                                                  
Posted 11 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
{#Lol}  I have to admit I love this song.
Posted 11 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]

One of Mellencamp's best albums.


Posted 11 years ago by bronorb    [ Reply ]
Ugh.
Posted 11 years ago by glassman    [ Reply ]
Very underrated album. Thanks for playing Bill.
Posted 11 years ago by chyk5    [ Reply ]
One of my more favorite Mellencamp tracks.
Posted 11 years ago by kurtster    [ Reply ]
KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
Why hasn't this been played yet?
 
It's probably a little payback for the loud, Cuban band that "crucified" John Lennon...
Posted 16 years ago by treatment_bound    [ Reply ]
Why hasn't this been played yet?
Posted 16 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]