Crash Course In The Blues

To a boy from Indiana

Fresh off the farm

L.A. looks like heaven

With its ever open arms

My mama said to watch yourself

Like mamas always do

Daddy said, "Those city girls

Will walk all over you"

So I hit the pavement

Running down on Hollywood and Vine

I got to town by seven

And I fell in love by nine

She was a California angel

Wearing alligator shoes

She had that something

That a poor boy can't refuse

She was incredible, she was

A crash course in the blues

Now we're screaming down the freeway

In this fancy foreign car

Headed for another party

Never seen so many stars

Just when I thought, I'd make my move

And ask her to be mine

She takes off with somebody else

And kisses me goodbye

She was incredible, she was

A crash course in the blues

Well, she was way too hard to handle

For a country boy like me

She's still a Roman candle

Burning in my memory

She was unbelievable, she was

A crash course in the blues

She was incredible, she was

A crash course in the blues, that's right