Mark Gothard: Music
Ode to Jack
(Mark Gothard)
Flying down the road
Let the truth be told
It’s here and it’s now
Gone away somehow
With your dearest friends
Around the turns and bends
Let it all unfold
The winter’s not so cold
Gimme another beer
I’ll shed another tear
For the whole wide world
Beauty all unfurled
I remember
Who you were
So persuaded
So unsure
A thousand lifetimes
Yes in fact
But here your name was
Name was Jack Kerouac
From your New England home
You traveled and you roamed
Feel it in your bones
As you’re all alone
And write to Cassady
He’s here for you and me
A brother through and through
A love both sad and true
Spontaneous prose
It comes and then it goes
Keep writing it all down
In traveling town to town
In their eyes you
Were a child
But your heart you
You kept wild
On the haters
You turned your back
And your name was
Name was Jack Kerouac