Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.
Before
Roger
Miller hit the big time, he was known to say that 'one day I'm gonna write a
song so big they'll play it at ball games'.
And this song was it.
Roger Miller was born in Texas and was raised in
Oklahoma. He was a generous man and
other song writers used to follow him about to pick up lines for songs. He
married 3 times and had 9 children – some might think that he was a glutton for
punishment. Sadly we lost Roger to
cancer in 1992.
Roger Miller is one of our all time favorites!!! You can't help but smile over his songs! and then he wrote the music to the Broadway play Big River. Who would have thought?? couldn't have been more different than his playful songs! He was a very talented man.
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