LOCATION: Mobile, Alabama
PERIOD: 1980s-90s
DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Rosalie Broussard (1967); Tullison “Tully” Tate (1965-1993)
Rosalie Broussard Tate has a history of running away from any relationship she is in. This time she has run from her marriage leaving her husband Tully Tate and their twin girls at home.
ROSALIE
(F. D. Leone, Jr.)
In a cocktail lounge in Mobile
Just about closing time
Empty shot glass on her table
Rosalie shuts her eyes
Tully would always find her
Bring her home in the past
Rosalie looks around her
Guess he gave up at last
Anytime anyone loves her
Soon she’ll be gone
To the dim lights of a barroom
Where she feels she belongs
Mistrusting human kindness
She’d rather be alone
Telling herself she’s free
Rosalie, ah, Rosalie
She’d like to kick the habit
Always choosing to run
Since she was sixteen
It’s what she’s relied upon
There’s a devil lying to her
Whispering in her ear
She wants to ignore it, but
It’s the strongest voice she hears
Anytime anyone loves her
Soon she’ll be gone
To the dim lights of a barroom
Where she feels she belongs
Mistrusting human kindness
She’d rather be alone
Telling herself she’s free
Rosalie, ah, Rosalie
© 2018 Frank David Leone, Jr./Highway 80 Music (ASCAP). The songs and stories on the Highway 80 Stories website are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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