The Pickup
Composer(s): Helen Carter
Performer(s): Mark Dinning



I made a date on the dare of a friend

If I'd known how it would end
I'd have turned around and ran away right then
From the pickup

I was a boy looking for fun
She looked so lost and all alone
And I didn't know my heart would be won
By the pickup

How could know her lips were so warm?
Or how big I'd feel with her in my arms?
How could I know? How could I see?
I'd fall in love with her, and she would love me

I should have told her I loved her right then
I couldn't face all of my friends
So I told my darling I couldn't see her again
I lost the pickup

The morning papers told how she died
Jumped from a bridge, suicide
And nobody knows that the heart in me cries
For the pickup

For the pickup