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Poodie’s ‘celebration of life’ scheduled
Poodie Locke will be honored June 28 at the Backyard, which has been reconfigured as a 2,000-capacity venue. The show runs from 2 p.m. - 10 p.m. Co-organizer Joe Ables of the Saxon Pub said the lineup won’t be announced, but you can figure out who’s going to be there. Imagine it’ll be like a mini Fourth of July Picnic.
Ables was one of Poodie’s pallbearers Monday in Waco. “It was a beautiful service,” he said. “Billy Joe Shaver sang ‘Live Forever’ and Ray Wylie Hubbard played ‘Amazing Grace’ on the slide guitar.” Ables estimates that about 1,000 mourners were on hand. The funeral was billed as “private,” but that was just to keep the crowd manageable: no one was refused entry.
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By Dean Strickland
May 15, 2009 12:45 PM | Link to this
I wrote this song in memory of Poodie:
That Very Sad Sixth Day Of May (At Poodie’s Hilltop Roadhouse)
I’d hitchhiked to Poodie’s to play For a fun Wednesday night open mic At Poodie’s Hilltop Roadhouse on the sixth day of May Was where I’d heard the news that he’d died
That was such a very sad time With the look in Brooks’ eyes which were glazed I think that he’d wanted to cry A quiet moment of remembrance we paid
CHORUS: On that very sad sixth day of May A quiet moment of remembrance we paid At the place where there’s no bad days On that very sad sixth day of May
Bridge: At the place where there’s no bad days Nobody knew exactly what to say Me, I just hitchhiked away On that very sad sixth day of May
CHORUS
©2009 Dean Strickland