It was an April night and I was driving Been out on the town. The show was at the palace So we all went on down. We all had a ball as I recall But now it seems absurd As the madness raged upon the stage He did not say a word. He was a little weird and we all feared He wasn't one of us. He didn't drink, he didn't smoke And he didn't even cuss. You'd see him now and then with a bunch of men Hanging round the sea And I know I would have liked him more If he were a little more like me. It was a spring-ish day – the clouds were grey It looked like it might rain. I thought about the night before And I was so ashamed When I heard what they had done to him The stranger I had known But the way we all got down last night It's a wonder we got home.