Blind Date

©1996 Dave Clegg

It was a lonesome year since my baby left

And my friends were so concerned.

They said, “You can’t put the blame 

On love’s sweet flame

Just because you got burned.”

So they set me up with a friend of a friend

Of a friend I’d never met,

And it would’ve been better 

If I still hadn’t met her,

Now I’m still trying to forget...

About the blind date from Hell’s gate.

Man, my buddies made a big mistake!

A miss-match if there’s ever been.

Three long hours and it seemed like ten.

There was insult, there was pain,

There was hard-earned money 

Runnin’ down the drain.

Bonnie and Clyde met a happier fate. 

It was a blind date from Hell’s gate. 

I showed up in my cowboy boots,

She wore an evening dress.

She said, “I changed my mind 

About the Dance-’n-Dine. 

I want the very best!”

But the maitre d’ took a look at me

And wouldn’t let us in.

We had to settle for the joint next door,

She hauled off and kicked me in the shin.

She didn’t like my truck, 

She didn’t like my jokes,

She didn’t care much for my kind of folks.

But I drew the line when she told me that

I look really silly in a cowboy hat.

Blind date from Hell’s gate.

Man, my buddies made a big mistake!

A miss-match if there’s ever been.

Three long hours and it seemed like ten.

There was insult, there was pain,

There was hard-earned money 

Runnin’ down the drain.

Bonnie and Clyde met a happier fate. 

It was a blind date from Hell’s gate. 

I’d jump from Lover’s Leap to escape

Another blind date from Hell’s gate.