I like playing honky-tonk songs like this and when people were dancing fast and drinking slow it made up for the times we played only for the bartender and waitresses.
Written: Melendres Street,
Las Cruces NM, 1977
Knees stole—yes, stole—this title from a woman he met at the Las Cruces Inn. On what was the most traditional, normal date of his life she told him that if she were ever to write a country & western tune, the title would be, “I’m Too Smart to Be This Kind of Fool”. He liked it too, and although he never saw her again, he fleshed out the song soon after and it became a standard at the Las Cruces Inn.
Why do I worry just like a good ol boy?
Why do I treat her like
she’s my favorite toy?
Jealousy is new to me,
I’ve always been so
fancy free,
But she introduced me
to misery
Now I’m learnin that
pain’s
On the other side of
joy.
I’m too smart to be this kind of fool
I know a lot about art
But I don’t know what
to do.
She tells me things
that I never heard in school,
Hell I’m too smart to
be this kind of fool.
Why do I need her,
I never needed anyone
before
Why do I believe her an
keep on askin for more?
As we roll along to the
evenin song,
Makin love til the
feelin’s gone,
An everything I ever
knew is wrong
She says “See ya
later,”
An leaves me lyin on
the floor.
Amoeba Nest
The CALHOON BROTHERS LIVE VERSION
(Sometime in the late 70s at the Las Cruces Inn, Las Cruces NM)
