i'm going where the water drinks like cherry wine Who: Willa Davidson and Rodeo Hawkins Where: Outside Rodeo's trailer; around the Dog Park What: Willa discovers the best way to the Dog King's good graces is through his stomach. When: Evening, September 6 2018
and if that's your mama, you better tie her to your side. yeah if that's your mama, better tie her to your side. 'cause if she flags my train i'm sure gonna let her ride.
It ain't hard to find the Dog King in his camp tonight.
All you have to do is follow the sound of that smoky blue voice and the pluck of a mahogany guitar, and it'll lead you to him eventually. Tonight Rodeo sits alone on a rickety lawn chair outside his trailer, a bottle between his knees and a guitar on his lap. The deep brown wood of the old Martin is scarred and stained, but it still plays just as sweet as the day it was made and Rodeo's rough fingers move across the strings with agile grace. Sweet Melissa rests at his feet, her tail sweeping across the sandy dirt when he plays one she likes and her sighs audible when he plays one she don't. Rodeo is currently heavy into a tune she isn't quite so fond of, and that's likely because he overdoes that grand ol' yodel with the sort of gusto that makes an entire camp consider mutiny.
"If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stall. If you don't want me mama, you sure don't have to stall," Rodeo sings, his nodding head bowed as he lets the music work through him. "'Cause I can get more women than a passenger train can haul."