Peggy Sue Did Indeed Get Married

'These songs are our children. We eventually have to part with them. We create them, nurture them, then send them out to fend for themselves, to stand alone in the world, mingle with other songs, hopefully find a significant other, and start their own families.'

Buddy gently placed his favourite Gibson acoustic by the side of the chair as though he was laying down his newborn in the cot to rest.

He'd finished the song.

'So when did this happen?' I asked.

'What?'

'When did she get married?'

'Oh,' he said. 'Last week, I think.'

'And who exactly did she marry?'

'Well,' laughed Buddy. 'That's the funny thing. You'da thought a gal like Peggy Sue woulda gone for a Louie Louie or a Pretty Boy Floyd or Stagger Lee, wouldn't ya?'

'For sure,' I said. 'Johnny B. Goode maybe?'

'Yeah, I thought she'd eventually hit the road with Jack or something, but no.'

'So,' I said. 'Who did she hook up with then?'

In a long life-seeing breath he announced, 'A boy named Peggy Sue.'

'No way,' I gasped.

'It's true. Love is strange.'