Mr. Shorty — Marty Robbins

September 9, 2007

This is one of my all time favorite story songs.  The cool thing about Marty Robbins’s story songs is that they all sound just like western movies.  In this one, a small cowboy is getting picked on in a saloon by another cowboy who insists on calling him “Shorty”.  “Shorty” informs the man quickly that it would be in his best interest to call him MISTER Shorty.  Of course, the big guy laughs him down and the little guy ends up killing him and moving on out of town.

The story is told through the eyes of the bartender, who assures us that if he ever runs into him again, you’d better believe he’ll say, “It’s me, MR. Shorty, your friend.”  Like all other Marty Robbins songs, his unbelievable voice stands on its own, and the story behind it is entertaining as well.

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