Iris and The Lonesome Stranger | Adam Carroll

🎵 Iris and The Lonesome Stranger | Adam Carroll 🎵 - Length: 0:2:38

Iris and The Lonesome Stranger - Written by Adam Carroll / Chris Carroll Recorded Live April 16, 2024 Live from Norfolk Street is an on-going concert series recorded live at McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston, Texas. Our live-streamed concert series is listener supported. For access to our catalog of full length shows, extras, encores, and interviews, become a contributing member at: https://livefromnorfolkstreet.com/ Lyrics: Iris had a best friend, she called Irish Rose,that she hid in a parking lot like it was solid gold, the cashier at the liquor store didn’t even say hello, but she used to be somebody man if he only cared to know She thought about a little girl on daddy’s knee, her dreams were just too big to be holding up a sign,she liked to watch the sunset in the desert, with a bottle and a blanket, on Hollywood and Vine Iris rode the stallion in Las Vegas Rodeo, almost took home a golden buckle all those years ago, now all that’s left of all she was, and all she’d hoped to be, was neon signs, stop lights and faded memories Life just got too hard to hold on to, from the nightclubs in Barstow, to the truck stops in LA, her mama never even wrote a post card, to send to Iris in the wilderness,man there’s nothing left to say Way up in Grass Valley, a stranger came to town, pulled up to the dew drop Inn where Iris hung around, He said “I got nobody, but I’ve got a lot of land She poured him her Irish rose, and then she took his hand, then she held his hand (Repeat verse 1)