Madam Nula Mae

© August 2011 Fort Creek Songs

Here's one I had fun writing. Not sure if it's going to see the light of day with Porter but it made me laugh when I wrote it.  It's a simple song in the Country & Western tradition of the spoken-word-story-telling-type typified in "A Boy Named Sue". 

Madam Nula Mae's
 
Aug. 19 '11
C 
She shut the door and her skirt fell to the floor.

                                                                      G
"For your first time I got something special in store."
F                                                    C 

In her eyes was a connection to the past

          G                                                         C
The oldest profession, "Tonight won't be your last."
 
Before Daddy worked the madam in the foyer,
I had settled on the one that they called Glory.
She smelled of lilacs and wore Chantilly lace
I smelled of fear moving up that curved staircase.
 
Chorus

F
The night my daddy took me to Nula
C
May's
F
My life was changed in oh so many
Am
ways
F                                                C    b Am
The stars up on high were shining big and bright
F                            G
And that 'ole Glory fixed me up just
C
right.

 
In stormed her man Duke, three sheets to the wind.
"Goddammit woman,  I told you never again
leave our place without cookin' me no
C b Am
dinner."
Then Duke proceeded to try to do her in
 
 
Duke saw me trembling and let out a loud guffaw
"This sorry boy ain't man enough to stick in your craw."
I saw red and charged his drunken ass, 

Tripped on her bra and knocked him out the glass.
 
Chorus:
The night my daddy took me to Nula May's
My life was changed in oh so many ways
The stars up on high were shining big and bright
And that 'ole Glory fixed me up just right.

The fall broke his neck and Glory flew into a rage
Now my neck is next as I sit here in this cage
Jailer please send a message to my ma.
Tell her "I'm sorry I ended up on the wrong side of the law."
 
Chorus:

The night my daddy took me to Nula May's
My life was changed in oh so many ways
The stars up on high were shining big and bright
And that 'ole Glory fixed me up just right.

And that 'ole bitch she fixed me up just right.