Heard this again today on BBC Radio 2. Here You Come Again by Dolly Parton. Every time I hear this it takes me right back to a night in 1978...
I was on a business trip to St. Louis, MO and Ros came with me. We had flown into New York on the Laker 'Skytrain', spent a couple of nights and then continued our journey to St. Louis on either Ozark or Eastern (memory a little grey here!).
On the night in question we had enjoyed dinner with some American friends and finished up, late, in 'The Roaring Forties' bar in West County. We were drinking Budweiser I recall and I was playing a pinball machine when I heard raised voices at the bar. A guy built like a bear and wearing a stetson was telling Ros that the Marlboro cigarettes on the bar were his and Ros was insisting that they were mine (go Ros!). The dude remained polite but insisted they were his. I turned away from the pinball machine, pulled my cigs from my pocket and waived them at Ros! Profound apologies followed. The guy just shrugged and said: "It's OK, you're English" !!
And whilst this was going on, Dolly was in full voice over the music system in the bar with 'Here You Come Again' !!
I love America, I have some great American friends, I love Dolly and I remember with great affection 'The Roaring Forties' bar in St. Louis, MO and the dude in the stetson... And 'Here You Come Again' is one of my all-time favourites...
The official music video for "Here You Come Again" from the recent release, "Dolly: Live From London."
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