I Love This Bar – Toby Keith
This is for Dad. He left us way to soon (September 5th). I can’t tell you how many bars I’ve been in with dad, since we were little to right up to weeks before he passed.
Anyway, over the past few years, we’d be at a bar, typically, Dad, Paul, Michael, myself, and Ronan, and a few other close friends and family.
It wasn’t unusual.
Neither was the next interaction:
Hey, do you guys like Toby Keith?
(feigned interest the first time, but we caught on after a few repeat instances)
Yeah dad – he has that tune…
Yeah I LOVE THIS BAR…
Sure enough, Paul had plugged the jukebox and it would come on…He loved his bar(s), he loved hanging with us all, he loved his Rolling Rocks, and he will be missed…
If you don’t find yourself fancying this tune, give it time. Go to a bar, order a Rolling Rock, put this tune on. You may hear an almost inaudible Bill Bradley expression, maybe even a “goddammit Michael!!!” or a “HEY PAUL, YOU WAKE THAT BABY UP!!!”
Anyway, have one for him.
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