Jake Hooker - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

Jake Hooker plays "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down" on TruCountry Music Show 2017.

"Pick me up on your way down"(written by Harlan Howard and Charlie Walker (# 2, 1958)

Jake Hooker b. 1977, Mertzon, Texas, USA. Hooker’s father led a country band, playing the traditional music of East Texas and at the age of seven he had absorbed enough of this musical atmosphere to allow him to join the group, playing bass guitar. Seven years after that he was leading his own band, singing and playing, and before many more years had passed was a full-time professional musician. He studied music theory at South Plains College, Levelland, Texas, and was meanwhile influenced by artists such as Johnny Bush, Darrell McCall, Ray Price, Leon Rausch and Faron Young. From 1998, Hooker was resident in Fort Worth, Texas, where he formed a new band, the Outsiders, which included drummer Jeff ‘The Kid’ Croy. With this group, Hooker gained a strong local following. In the early 00s the band included Anthony Wilson (fiddle), Dickey Overbey (steel guitar), with Croy still behind the drums.

Pick Me Up On Your Way Down Lyrics

You were mine for just awhile

Now you're putting on the style

And you never once looked back

At your home across the track

You're the gossip of the town

But my heart can still be found

Where you tossed it on the ground

Pick me up on your way down

When you're blue and all alone

When there glamor starts to boar you

Come on back where you belong

You maybe their pride and joy

But they'll find another toy

And they'll take away your crown

Pick me up on your way down

They have changed your attitude

Made you honey and so rude

Your new friends can take the blame

Underneath your still the same

When you learn these things are true

I'll be waiting here for you

As you tumble to the ground

Pick me up on your way down

When you're blue and all alone

When there glamor starts to boar you

Come on back where you belong

You maybe their pride and joy

But they'll find another toy

And they'll take away your crown

Pick me up on your way down