A Star in My Midst

While rehearsing for “42 Minutes from Broadway,” my first time every in a stage play, I learned that a member of our cast wrote the lyrics for the Roy Orbison song, “Pretty Woman.” What a treat!

“Pretty Woman” is one of my all-time favorite pieces, and not a bad movie. In case you’re in the mood to sing, here are the lyrics Bill Fathke wrote  under his pen name, Bill Dees:

Pretty woman, walkin’ down the street

Pretty woman the kind I like to meet

Pretty woman I don’t believe you, you’re not the truth

No one could look as good as you, mercy

Pretty woman won’t you pardon me

Pretty woman I couldn’t help but see

Pretty woman that you look lovely as can be

Are you lonely just like me

Pretty woman stop awhile

Pretty woman talk awhile

Pretty woman give your smile to me

Pretty woman yeah, yeah, yeah

Pretty woman look my way

Pretty woman say you’ll stay with me

‘Cause I need you, I’ll treat you right

Come with me baby, be mine tonight

Pretty woman don’t walk on by

Pretty woman don’t make me cry

Pretty woman don’t walk away, hey, OK

If that’s the way it must be, OK

I guess I’ll go on home, it’s late

There’ll be tomorrow night, but wait

What do I see?

Is she walkin’ back to me?

Yeah, she’s walkin’ back to me

Oh, oh, pretty woman.

Orbison, a rock & roll legend, hailed from Wink, Texas and with his signature prescription sunglasses just might make a great subject for a painting. Meanwhile, Bill Fathke/Dees, a lead in our play, is a great guy to work with.