Stranger Things Have Happened

Story Behind The Song

I started with the line, "Double bourbon, single bed," and wrote a song around it.

Song Description

You're having coffee at a Greyhound station in the deep South, trying to remember exactly how you wound up making love to that mysterious woman.

Song Length 3:56 Genre Blues - Country, Country - Rock
Tempo Medium Fast (131 - 150) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Pleased, Worried Subject Luck/Coincidence, Region
Similar Artists Phoebe Snow, Alabama Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

Stranger, Things Have Happened ©1995, John Gahl


Early Morning In a station
Saw a woman I recognized
Never met her But I knew her
Knew that look Was in her eyes.

Couldn?t get my mojo going
My mind refused to understand
I?m not sure I took her meaning
So instead she took my hand.... and she said


I tell you, Stranger things have happened

I will tell them to you one by one

And the thing you should remember

What you don?t do can?t be undone

Southern heat wave and cicadas
Screaming murder in the trees
Southern moonlight cold as neon
Getting colder by degrees
Alligator he ain?t talking
Some things are better left unsaid
Catfish blinking down in the muddy water
Double bourbon single bed.

I tell you, Stranger things have happened
I will tell them to you one by one
And the thing you should remember
What you don?t do can?t be undone

Next thing I knew I?m stirring coffee
Hurricane was in the air
No idea where I was going
But I knew I been somewhere
Of all the things I don?t remember
That?s the one thing I don?t remember most
Backwater bayou where I was baptized
Father son and holy ghost

I tell you, Stranger things have happened.....

Lyrics John Gahl Music John Gahl
Performance John Gahl, vocals and guitar

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