Pennies on a track

This was the only video of this song that was remotely tolerable: most of them matched each line with Readers Digest/Ideals Magazine exactitude. "I love little baby ducks" (show the little baby ducks!), "old pickup trucks" (show the old pickup trucks!), etc. etc. to the point of agony.

I think this version maybe dicks around with the lyrics a little - Tom T. Hall, incredibly, was not allowed to say he loved grass on certain Southern radio stations, though he could love hay with impugnity. Make sense to you? So he changed it to "old TV shows, and snow." Ye gods.

Anyway, not to go line-by-line because I can't take it, I've scared up a few images that
"I. . . love. . .", and which seem to suit.

I Love

I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks, slow-moving trains, and rain
I love little country streams, sleep without dreams, Sunday school in May,
And hay
And I love you too

I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends, birds of the world, and squirrels
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass
And I love you too

I love honest open smiles, kisses from a child, tomatoes on the vine, and onions
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try, music when it’s good, and life
And I love you too   

I love. . .little water babies when they swim like ducks

'n little boys 'n trucks. . .

 (And this truck too, it's cool.)

I love pennies on a track

and trains movin' slow when
 you have noplace to go.

I love guys laughing in bars, looking up at the stars

(. . . but I wish a squirrel'd do this to me.)

I love chickens when they squawk, people when they walk

(like this?)

and toke up and laugh and talk.

I love. . . bears in a stream

weird owls

and anything green.

I love gigantic black pups. Paper Starbucks cups.

Grimm's fairy tales

And life.

AND

I

LOVE

YOU

TOO.

http://margaretgunnng.blogspot.com/2012/01/synopsis-glass-character-novel-by.html

http://members.shaw.ca/margaret_gunning/betterthanlife.htm

"A car full of kids and snow cones": really dumb songs I like

He's the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

And you can see him every weekend

With a car full of kids and snow cones

And the people cross town don't know his name

But on Franklin Pike Circle, he's king

1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

Well, at five thirty-five at

The corner of Franklin and Warner

A blue station wagon comes

Sliding around the corner

And on down Franklin Pike Circle

All you're seeing is a streak of blue

And pulls in the drive at the address of 1432

And he says, my head aches and my back hurts

And I don't feel like talking

Don't wan go the show to see Doctor Zhivago

Don't wanna take the dog out walking

I wanna sit right here in this easy chair

It's been a jungle all day, you know

The 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero is home

He was out pitching ball with the

Kids in the neighborhood yesterday

And the old major leaguer had to quit

'Cause he said he threw his arm away

And the kids all hid behind the hedge

And laughed at him but wouldn't let it show

Because they love him so,

He's the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

He's the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

And you can see him every weekend

With a car full of kids and snow cones

And, you know people cross town

Don't know his name

But on Franklin Pike Circle, he's king

1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

Well, he won a little pony at the

Hill High auction just the other day

And he didn't mean to do it

And he wanted to give the pony away

When they called out his name

He tried not to claim it

But the kids started crying

'Cause they'd already named it

And who's up every Saturday morning

Saddling his new toy, you guessed it

The 1432 Franklin Pike Circle cowboy

He's the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

And you can see him every weekend

With a car full of kids and snow cones

During Christmas, took the kids

Down to see the floats

When he wanted to stay home

And watch the Baltimore Colts

1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero

Well, the ten-thirty news usually

Finds our hero is a sleepy head

And Peter's out somewhere wrecking the car

And the rest of the kids have gone to bed

So she takes his hand

They climb the stairs and he falls asleep

And she bends over him so tenderly

To kiss his cheek

'Cause she loves him so

And she's lucky, you know

To be married to the 1432

1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

He's the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

And you can see him every weekend

With a car full of kids and snow cones

Christmas time, he took

'Em down to see the floats

When he wanted to stay home

And watch the Baltimore Colts

He's the 1432 Franklin Pike Circle hero

http://margaretgunnng.blogspot.com/2012/01/synopsis-glass-character-novel-by.html

http://members.shaw.ca/margaret_gunning/betterthanlife.htm