Saddle Storms - 16 Calls
16 CALLS | Saddle Storms | Pure Western Album
She sent the list. She sent the pictures. He called sixteen times. He came home with fancy pickles nobody ordered.
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16 Calls is the grocery store experience every married woman has lived in real time — a full list, photographic evidence of every product, a prayer said over the driveway, and sixteen confirmation calls before he made it past the produce section. He never wins the substitute debate. Generic is not the same. It has never been the same. It will never be the same. And whatever came home in that last bag that wasn't on any list is currently sitting on the second shelf where it will remain until approximately 2031. - Original by Saddle Storms.
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[Verse 1]
I made the list on Sunday night
Wrote it clear in order aisle by aisle
Took the pictures of each product
Sent them to his phone with a hopeful smile
Kissed him on the cheek this morning
Said the list is there the pictures too
Said a little prayer as he backed out the driveway
Lord please let him read them through
[Pre-Chorus]
I had barely started on the laundry
When that phone lit up at me
Baby is this the right one
Honey can you just come see
[Chorus]
Sixteen calls from the grocery store
Sweet Jesus sixteen calls
Is this the brand you wanted
Is the other one okay
Can I get the cheaper version
It would save us both some pay
I sent you with a list and pictures darlin
How did this get so hard
Sixteen calls from the grocery store
And he ain't even past the produce yard
[Verse 2]
Call three was about the bread aisle
This one's cheaper by a dime
Call five was about the cereal
Generic's basically the same this time
Baby no it is not the same
It has never been the same
I have bought the same brand for eleven years
And I am not changing up the game
Call nine he found a substitute
For something I did not ask to substitute
Call twelve he's in the frozen section
Honey what's a good route
[Pre-Chorus]
I finished all the laundry
Started on the dishes too
Baby is this the right size
Lord give me strength to see this through
[Chorus]
Sixteen calls from the grocery store
Sweet Jesus sixteen calls
Is this the brand you wanted
Is the other one okay
Can I get the cheaper version
It would save us both some pay
I sent you with a list and pictures darlin
How did this get so hard
Sixteen calls from the grocery store
And he ain't even past the produce yard
[Bridge — spoken, fond and completely unsurprised]
Now I want to say for the record
I sent pictures
Of every single item
On that list
Clear pictures
Good lighting
He called me on call fourteen
To show me a picture
Of the picture I sent him
To ask if that was the right one
It was
It was the right one
[Verse 3]
He pulled in the driveway round about noon
Bags in both hands looking proud
I counted everything out on the counter
And then I saw it in the crowd
Something that was not on any list
Something nobody here requested
A jar of fancy pickled something
That apparently just looked impressive
[Final Chorus]
Sixteen calls from the grocery store
Sweet Jesus sixteen calls
Got everything I asked for mostly
Give or take them fancy pickle jars
Can't return it now he's proud of it
It's sitting on the second shelf
Sixteen calls from the grocery store
Honey next time I'll just go myself
[Outro]
Sixteen calls...
He got the right brand though...
Mostly...
Those pickles better be good...
Written by Saddle Storms: https://SaddleStorms.com
About Saddle Storms: Wyoming-born outlaw country, western storytelling, rodeo soul, heartbreak ballads, and Code of the West honesty from six generations of ranch life.
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