tin pan alley soul

what wonderful lines are these: 

Now the bellhop’s tears keep flowin’
the desk clerk’s dressed in black
well they’ve been so long on Lonely Street
they’ll never never look back *

tell me 
would you rather hear
20 verses or so 
of an historic ballad sung 
by a very worthy folk singer 
about an event which happened 
100 years before 
he she or they were born 
or Heartbreak Hotel?

it’s no contest for me
rockanroll fol di riddle me ree

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Jeff Cloves

* Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Doren 1956

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