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The title track mentions Jesus, Milton, Shelly, Keats, Lord Byron, and John Wayne (Who also died of lung cancer) and alludes to Elmore Leonard's twice-filmed 3:10 to Yuma. My Ride's Here has a cover photo of Zevon peering from the window of a hearse. If he'd lived longer, Zevon might have written a song about them, too. I used the title for one of my Roller Derby novels because it captures the raunchy humor of the self-described Bitches on Wheels. Find it on Youtube and accept that it will stick in your head for the rest of the day.

"Buddy's real talent was beating people up/His heart wasn't in it, but the crowd ate it up./ A scout from the Flames came down from Saskatoon/ Said, "There's always room on our team for a goon." "Hit Sombody (The Hockey Song)" introduces us to Buddy, who "wasn't that good with a puck." Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams/Touch me as I fall into view." You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on you blouse/. "Keep Me in Your Heart," one of his posthumous Grammy winners, tells his lover, "If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less/.

Taken as a whole, the song feels like a Donald Westlake caper set to music. "I got a part-time job in my father's carpet store/laying tackless stripping and housewives by the score." Zevon's son Jordan hypothesizes that the old building may have been where Dad got the asbestos exposure that caused his cancer years later. Bad Example" chronicles the life of a perpetual con man and gives an autobiographical nod to his father's carpet store in Arizona. "Boom Boom Mancini" is an homage to the boxer, probably inspired by his own father's early boxing career. Zevon told great noir stories, including "Excitable Boy." "Lawyers, Guns and Money" is about a rich screw-up trying to buy his way out of trouble, and one of his most bizarre songs (Which every Zevon fan knows by heart) is "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner." It tells of a mercenary who is killed by another mercenary, and his headless ghost comes back to get revenge. Letterman had him as his only guest for a one-hour segment after he announced that he was dying. He also filled in for Paul Shaffer as music director for David Letterman, one of his lifelong friends. He co-wrote several songs with Phil (Who may have given him the idea for "Werewolves"). He played piano behind the Everly Brothers, then worked with each of them individually after their break-up. "Werewolves of London" offers this gem of wordplay: "Little old lady got mutilated late last night/Werewolves of London again." Zevon called the victim "Little Susie," a wink at the girl who fell asleep at the movies in the Everly Brothers song. "Excitable Boy" tells of a young man who murders the girl he takes to the junior prom. "Carmelita," a ballad about a junkie, offers the chorus "I'm all strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town." Not quite what they were looking for in Peoria. Because Zevon's humor was often dark and his stories and imagery jarring or downright disturbing, few of his songs got airplay except "Werewolves of London," but he also wrote songs for the Turtles in the 60s, and Linda Ronstadt covered "Hasten Down the Wind" and "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" in the 70s.