4th Place Winner, January/February 2014 Contest: “My First Big Break”

4th Place
“My First Big Break”
Mark Rowe
Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada

He said see that blonde in the blue
Sipping on her glass of beer
If it wasn’t for that woman
I wouldn’t even be here

She made me what I am today
And the man I am tonight
Just another honky-tonk fool
On a bar stool getting tight

She’s the one who gave me
My first big break
She’s the one who showed
My heart how to ache
It’s all because of her
I’m in this awful state
She’s the one who gave me
My first big break

Said the sad songs on the jukebox
Thanks to her I know them all
And there’s not much I can’t tell you
Bout beer bourbon and baseball

Yeah I’ve spent so much money here
By now I must own this bar
No if it wasn’t for that woman
I wouldn’t have gone this far

She’s the one who gave me
My first big break
She’s the one who showed
My heart how to ache
It’s all because of her
I’m in this awful state
She’s the one who gave me
My first big break

Yeah it’s all because of her
I’m in this awful state
She’s the one who gave me
My first big break

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