Story Behind The Song

good luck with that

Song Description

guy walk into a bar populated by historical and fictional characters

Lyrics

Hamlet reads a bible at a booth by the door
where some prophet of the obvious has passed out on the floor
while Genghis Khan warns Shakespeare 'the fish here makes you ill'.
Mercy isn't on the menu at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Joan of Arc tells Einstein 'we're all saints in the womb' while Judas keeps complaining 'there's no soap in the bathroom'.
And Jesus can't get a table. He leans on a windowsill
and tries converting the bouncer at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Happy hour finds Elvis decked out in a road kill fur
while Marie Antoinette keeps asking 'what's for dessert'?
The waitress says German chocolate cake as in waltz Jack and Jill.
Seems no one's getting carded at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Marilyn asks Dimaggio for a no fault divorce.
Sinatra's supposed to sing tonight but I hear he's kind of hoarse.
The house band is the Beatles but Bach is on the bill
and Nero plays the fiddle at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Joan of Arc asks Edison "Hey Tom, you got a light?"
while Mohammed and Socrates try to pick a fight
with anyone who thinks they can make time stand still.
Hope is just another entree at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Couples try to hook up as it gets near closing time.
Joan of Arc flirts with Nero by the 'no smoking' sign
while Delilah twirls Samson's hair. She swears she's on the pill.
Oh but Samson's having second thoughts at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Cleopatra and Elvis drink tequila and lime
and the Rockefeller's table only tips a dime.
The owners want to torch the joint, let insurance foot the bill.
They're tired of all the egos at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Jesus and the devil play monopoly
while Martin Luther King tells us all about some dream.
But I'm not really listening. I just want my coke refilled. Coke is just one of the sponsors of the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Adam and Eve sell fig leaves in the lobby Friday nights while some trust fund terrorist tries to sell me dynamite. He says the market's good and he's trying to make a kill selling low end revolution at the Windmill Bar & Grill.

Edgar Allen Poe waits for the train to Baltimore
but the train won't even stop for him. It rambles on nevermore.
The house band keeps on playing Auld Lang Syne until
the maitre de turns off the lights at the Windmill Bar & Grill.