Dubuque Blues

Do you remember Dubuque?
Have you even heard of that?
It's half between New York and California
There is a highway in and back
Plus an active railroad track
And the west side of the city sells no liquor

And I can't recall the instances
That keep it in my thoughts
City parks or nighttime girls
Or ancient limestone rocks

Writing songs of rights and wrongs
And buyin' penny loafer shoes
Oh, definitely, most certainly
I've got the Dubuque blues

Do you remember Anna Sue?
Have you even heard of that? (I've heard of that)
She went from Tennessee to Minnesota
She was thirteen and I was ten
As the gentle Southern wind
Would make the moonlight shatter through the maples

And I can recall the summer
That we spent among the trees
And there were no Monday bummers
To blow my life of ease

Writing songs of rights and wrongs
And buyin' penny loafer shoes
Oh, definitely, most certainly
I've got the Dubuque blues

Now, the Dubuque blues ain't news to anybody
Who knows sadness is the sweetest of the pains (Sadness is the sweetest of the pains)
Who can tell with just a look that it's all over
And who never cried, well almost never cried

Do you remember nickel Cokes?
Have you even heard of that?
The half between the 40's and tomorrow
I once considered it my home
Now, I know I'll always roam
And if I pass through there again I will be lucky

And I can't recall the instances
They hung it in my thoughts
And I'm sure they're as important
As the feelings that they've brought

Writing songs of rights and wrongs
And buyin' penny loafer shoes
Whoa-oh-oh, definitely, most certainly
I've got the Dubuque blues

Ooh (Ooh-ooh, ooh)
(Ooh-ooh, ooh)
Ooh (Ooh-ooh, ooh)
(Ooh-ooh, ooh)