Coughin’ Like Doc Holiday Did

I had a root canal done last week and something like that starts a guy to thinking. As I sat in the dentist chair it sort of reminded me of the time I had this really bad cough and it wouldn’t go away.  Finally, in desperation I went to a doctor’s office and sat in a big room with a load of suffering people waiting to see the doctor. We all had an appointment for 9 A.M.  By the time I got home from that doctor’s office I had written a song titled I’m Coughin’ Like Doc Holiday Did Just Before He Died.” One of the lines goes, “The things a fella thinks about when he doesn’t know what’s wrong could fill a book and still have plenty left to write a song.” So as I sat in that dentist’s chair I was thinking about a lot of things and one of them was about a sister-in-law who died recently from soft tissue cancer. They discovered she had cancer when she had a tooth pulled and the gum did not heal. The instance that popped into my mind I popped it right out again and would not let it hang around. I instantly went back to the thought of that Doc Holiday song of mine and the fact that the doctor had me well in a week and I lived happily ever after.  No pain at the dentist’s office at all and I feel like a new man.  Oh…the things a fella thinks of when he doesn’t know what’s wrong…I guess we have all done a lot of that in our business and personal lives…