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Today’s slow drag is with “Motel Matches,” from “Get Happy!!,” released in 1980. The songwriting is credited to Elvis Costello. Show Notes: ---------------------- Appreciation written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson, MA/MFA Twitter: https://twitter.com/slowdragremedy Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com Rate this Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/slowdrag ---------------------- References: Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Motel Matches”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Motel_Matches “Motel Matches”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLh-5onrgfQ “Who Shot Sam” (1959) George Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItJp3mJSoKE “Who Shot Sam” lyrics: https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/8152751/George+Jones “Another Saturday Night,” Sam Cooke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O8m0mMDpHw “Sam Cooke dies under suspicious circumstances in LA”: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sam-cooke-dies-under-suspicious-circumstances-in-la “Why Mystery Still Shrouds Singer Sam Cooke’s Shooting Death 60 Years Later”: https://people.com/movies/why-mystery-still-shrouds-singer-sam-cookes-shooting-death-nearly-60-years-later/ Urban Dictionary entry for Motel Matches: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Motel%20Matches Purchase “The Most Terrible Time in My Life…Ends Thursday” https://www.amazon.com/Most-Terrible-Time-Life-Thursday-ebook/dp/B07XLXS5PL/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Y4SGCT62WPEK&dchild=1&keywords=the+most+terrible+time+in+my+life+ends+thursday&qid=1608873405&sprefix=The+Most+Terrible+Time+in+%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-1 "Motel Matches" Lyrics (Final and Alternative) Somewhere in the distance I can hear "Who Shot Sam?" This is my conviction, that I am an innocent man Though you say I'm unkind I'm being as nice as I can Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches I struck a lucky with motel matches Falling for you without a second look Falling out of your open pocketbook Giving you away like motel matches I wake with the siren in an emergency Though your mind is full of love In your eyes there is a vacancy And you know what I'll do When the light outside changes from red to blue Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches I struck a lucky with motel matches Falling for you without a second look Falling out of your open pocketbook Giving you away like motel matches Alternate lyrics Live at the Palomino, North Hollywood, CA, February 16, 1979: Somewhere in the distance I can hear "Who Shot Sam?" Someone's crawling 'round your door I suspect it is the insect man Though you say I'm unkind You'll find I'm being as nice as I can Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches I struck lucky with motel matches Falling for you without a second look Falling out of your open pocketbook Giving you away like motel matches Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I remember thinking as I was crawling to the door That I will make my move if I can only jump this chequered floor And I know that quite soon You'll see more of me than just a cartoon Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches I struck lucky with motel matches Falling for you without a second look Falling out of your open pocketbook Giving you away like motel matches Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches I struck lucky with motel matches Falling for you without a second look Falling out of your open pocketbook Giving you away like motel matches Giving you away like motel matches Giving you away like motel matches Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh