Dewey's Ditties episodes:

• February 01, 2025Long Haul (P. Shuler/D. Longuski/D. Snyder)

  Our parents said we married too young

  Thought our vows could never take it

  Now twenty years have come and gone

  And we're still acting like when we first dated

  I'm sure there's a more romantic way

  To paint a picture of our fate

  But I'll draw on my trucking days

  To explain our situation...

  We're in it for the LONG HAUL

  Cruising up and down love's road

  Taking all the curves in stride

  Lightenin' each other's load

  We've tapped the brakes, got lost some days

  But our hearts ain't ever stalled

  We're in it for the LONG HAUL

  Our honeymoon was me and you

  In my brand-new tractor-trailer

  After two weeks on the road with me

  You did us both a favor

  Made me quit my overnighters

  Grew our family two kids wider

  Helped us set our souls on fire

  At the church up on the hill

  REPEAT CHORUS

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Pamela Shuler (ASCAP); Dewey Longuski (BMI); Dana Snyder (ASCAP)

  ©2025

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• January 22, 2025Broken Heart Bouquet

  It was early in the spring as the daffodils bloomed in the fields

  When I offered you a rose as a sign my feelings were real

  But by the time the lilies blossomed my world was torn in two

  You fell for another who fell in love with you

  BROKEN HEART BOUQUET

  Flowers of memories we made

  A beautiful reminder how love slips away

  BROKEN HEART BOUQUET

  Saw your wedding picture on the front page local news

  And it was worth a thousand words of hard, cold, bitter truth

  You had daffodils and roses and lilies in your hand

  As you promised to take him for your man

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Spring used to be my favorite time of year

  Now when I see petals bloom

  It reminds me of you

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©2025

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• January 19, 2025What Your Beer Says About You

  WHAT YOUR BEER SAYS ABOUT YOU

  You can work on your pickup lines till they roll right off your tongue

  Get a tattoo cowgirls fall for when the neon lights turn on

  You might even impress when you two-step in your fancy cowboy boots

  But do you know WHAT YOUR BEER SAYS ABOUT YOU?

  The label on the longneck your drinking

  Is worth at least a thousand words

  Telling all the women in the bar if you're

  Worth their time to flirt

  No brand is right, no brand is wrong but you can bet it's true

  What your beer, WHAT YOUR BEER SAYS ABOUT YOU

  Some guys think it's wise to hide the kinda brew they're drinking

  Keep the women wond'rin' who they are and disguise their way of thinkin'

  But if you wanna find someone who acts and thinks the way you do

  Let 'em hear WHAT YOUR BEER SAYS ABOUT YOU

  REPEAT CHORUS

  You'll know in a heartbeat if she's your type of model

  When you flash her...the front of your bottle

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©2025

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• December 23, 2024King Size Bed (D. Longuski)

  Two thousand years ago near the City of David

  A wond'rous star appeared one night

  It guided magi to the place

  Where Jesus lay in a crib of hay

  That little bitty manger was a KING SIZE BED

  For the Christ child born in Bethlehem

  While the angels sang

  The Shepherds prayed

  To the baby in the KING SIZE BED

  That lowly stable was a Holy Temple

  As the newborn Savior rested there

  The sheep and cattle even knew

  The Word made Flesh was in full view

  REPEAT CHORUS

  No crown of gold or diadem

  Was on the royal infant’s head...but

  REPEAT CHORUS

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©2024

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• December 15, 2024DAD-icated

  We didn't always toe the line and now I wonder how we'd be

  If Dad didn't have the heart to correct us on his knee

  When he wasn't pullin' double-shifts to pay the bills on time

  He led us all in prayer before Mom turned out the lights

  All his sacrifices kept our family goin'

  And I'm glad he handed down that devotion

  I'm DAD-ICATED to raising our kids

  With tough love and hugs in a home where God lives

  They know they can count on me

  To be around when life gets complicated

  I'm DAD-ICATED

  It ain't easy watching mini-mes make their own mistakes

  And sometimes I don't follow all the righteous words I say

  But day after day I do the best I can

  To listen, comfort, guide, and understand

  And in a world that spreads hate like a cancer

  I teach 'em love your neighbor's the answer

  REPEAT CHORUS

  If our children end up knowing the difference between joy and happiness

  Then I'll proudly say I did my part to help them be their best

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Love being DAD-ICATED

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©2024

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• November 11, 2024More Than Me

  She's at His house every Sunday

  Got His name tattooed on her arm

  She reads His book religiously

  And glued His symbol on her car

  If you know our Savior, then you wouldn't wonder

  How her affection for Him makes our marriage so much stronger

  She loves Jesus MORE THAN ME

  And I wouldn't have it any other way

  Her heart is mine but her soul is His eternally

  Yeah, she loves Jesus MORE THAN ME

  Her life's a double devotion

  That she lives out every day

  As a loving wife to me

  And as a child of God when she prays

  Lesser men might be offended

  To have to share their angel's time and attention

  REPEAT CHORUS

  He died for her

  He died for me

  He rose from the dead

  To set us free

  REPEAT CHORUS

  And that’s the way it should be

  MORE THAN ME

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©2024

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• October 26, 2024I Don't Roll (D. Longuski)

  Yesterday my boss called me off the line

  Knew I had a CDL years ago

  Said he could make me rich if I got back into trucking

  Hauling parts from coast to coast

  But before the last words of the offer left his lips

  I just shook my head and told him how it is

  I DON'T ROLL

  In my rock-solid home

  Gotta a beautiful wife and happy kids to hold

  I'm covered in love like moss on a sedentary stone

  I DON'T ROLL

  I've gotta lotta single friends who say a family like mine

  Would only slow 'em down

  I read between the lines on the postcards they send

  They can't believe I'm stuck in the same town

  Oh, I pray someday they'll get tired of living the fast life

  And sooner than later they'll see the reasons why...

  REPEAT CHORUS

  I meant every word in that little white church

  From 'with this ring' to "I do"

  I chocked my wheels right then and there

  My roaming days were through

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©BMI - 2024

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• October 16, 2024Alcohaulin'

  "I wonder how this beer got to this bar?” said no one ever

  But if it didn't there'd be one less place for friends to gather

  No matter how you drink it

  From a bottle, can, or glass

  Without guys like me the neon party wouldn't last...I'm...

  ALCOHAULIN’

  Ice cold beer to your favorite bar in town

  ALCOHAULIN’

  In a reefer eighteen wheeler hammer down

  Bartenders get the thanks and tips

  For quenching all the thirsty lips

  But truckers keep the whole wide world pub-crawlin'

  ALCOHAULIN’

  I'm up before the sun loading brew-filled kegs and cases

  Then cruise the highways to the driveways of your local drinkin' places

  But before the parking lights turn on

  I'll be back in my hometown

  On a barstool for a cold one but when morning rolls around...I'm...

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Drink a toast for the ones who fuel all the fun

  At the dive where you revive when your work day is done...we're...

  REPEAT CHORUS

  ALCOHAULIN’

  ALCOHAULIN’

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©2024

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• September 24, 2024Shade Tree (D. Longuski / P. Shuler)

  Grandma claimed it was the biggest oak for miles around

  And it lived by the front porch of our old farmhouse

  When it was too hot to fish I cooled off under its leaves

  That’s when Grandma brought me out a glass of her sweet tea

  Then almost like a Sunday prayer

  She'd praise the cool in the air

  Everybody needs a SHADE TREE

  A quiet haven of rest

  Somewhere to find peace of mind

  And the reasons to feel blessed when the world turns up the heat

  Everybody needs a SHADE TREE

  Well I grew along that oak for eighteen of its rings

  Then like the birds in its branches I spread my wings

  All the people I meet in all the places I go

  Need some kind of relief for their body or soul

  Guess it’s true what Grandma used to say

  Back on those hot summer days

  REPEAT CHORUS

  It could be a bible to the unevangelized

  A bed for a stranger on a cold winter night

  There's always an opportunity to be...

  Somebody else's SHADE TREE

  Their quiet haven of rest

  Somewhere they find peace of mind

  And the reasons to feel blessed when the world turns up the heat

  Everybody needs a SHADE TREE

  Everybody

  Everybody

  Everybody needs a SHADE TREE

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  Pamela Shuler (ASCAP)

  ©2024

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• September 06, 2024Sand Blasted

  I flip-flopped through the hotel lobby and past the tiki bar

  When I reached the beach my Yeti on wheels put a helluva strain on my arm

  But this lounge chair with umbrella is the best place I could be

  Where the surf waves goodbye to what we had and I drown your memory

  I'm getting...

  SAND BLASTED

  By the oceanside

  Beer after beer stripping you off my mind

  It might take a week or two

  Until my outlook's good as new

  The way it was before the day you trashed it

  Oooh, oooh, oooh

  SAND BLASTED

  I spent a week trying to get over you back in our hometown

  But the faces and friends and places we'd been couldn’t keep your memory down

  So I booked the cheapest flight I could find where palm trees meet the coast

  With a cooler for my luggage and a heartache full of hope...I'm getting...

  REPEAT CHORUS

  The first few days were rough without your kisses

  But Modelo is making me mellow among the sea shells and star fishes

  REPEAT CHORUS

  Dewey Longuski (BMI)

  ©2024

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