The Graham Parsons Story Lyrics

This here song's for Cecil Ingram Conner, the third

They say he changed the face of American music

His two biggest bands fired him after one year

He wound up with Keith Richards over there in England

Nine years old, Elvis Presley came to his school to play

That's when he made his career decision

Daddy killed himself. Mama OD'd on alcohol

He went off to Harvard University to study theology

Waylon Jennings claimed he was the only man to do more drugs than Waylon himself

Three times a lethal dose to one man and it showed

He spent a lot of time out there at Joshua Tree Monument looking for UFOs out there in California

Out there for days at a time, out in the desert

Wound up dead of morphine and tequila at the Joshua Tree Inn out there in California

Couple of fans stole his body from LAX airport

Drove it out to Cap Rock

Poured five gallons of gasoline and BAM

Cremated Graham Parsons

Leaving 35 pounds of charred remains out in the desert

Wasn't any law for stealing a body back then

So they were fined $750 for stealing a coffin and they were let go

They put a concrete slab out where it happened but park service removed it

They put it back at the Joshua Tree Inn

You can go see it if you want