A.E. Stallings
Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,
The booze and the neon and Saturday night,
The swaying in darkness, the lovers like spoons?
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes?
Does he hum them to while away sad afternoons
And the long, lonesome Sundays? Or sing them for spite?
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,
The booze and the neon and Saturday night?
Not Luther I suspect. Neon was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Still, with good enough tunes, plenty of Saturday nights and enough booze, a good lover and numerous swayings, I’m sure we could all do without the neon.
Actually, I really like gospel music. 
The Reality. Friday Night, Saturday Morning.
The Specials.
Out of bed, it’s 8:00am
Out my head, at half past 10
Out with mates and dates and friends
That’s what I do at weekends
I can’t talk and I can’t walk
But I know where I’m going to dance
I’m going to watch my money go
And the look I know, know
As my feet go through the door
I know what my right time is for
Buy a drink and pull a chair
Up to the edge if the dance floor
Dance and prances through the night
Trying to start or stop a fight
I sit and watch the flashing lights
Moving left and footless tides
I go out on Friday night and I come home on Saturday morning (x2)
I like to venture in to to town
I like to get a few drinks down
The floor gets packed the bar gets full
I don’t like life when things get dull
The hen party to save the night
Free themselves from drunken stacks
Having fun and dancing in
Circle 'round the leather bags
I go out on Friday night and I come home on Saturday morning (x2)
But 2 O Clock has come again
It’s time to leave this paradise
But the chip shop isn’t closed
'Cause their pies are really nice
I get in the taxi cue
Sitting in someone else’s spew
With lipstick on my shirt
Instead of piss stains on my shoes
I believe the “Why should the Devil have all the good tunes” line was used by William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, to deflect criticism that the early SA were writing hymn words to popular tunes of the day.
I got my own back though. I took the tune he wrote for ‘O Boundless Salvation’ and wrote a drinking song to it. 
Well, the first line, now the reference to neon, is supposed to be attributed to Luther. BUt, then, also it does say apocryphally attributed.
Trust me to miss the obvious reading. That’s what three hours of lecturing does to me. I’m now having a lot of trouble finding the line I must have thought you meant. Oh here it is ____________________________
I’m not sure whether or not to pay this issue any mind at all, but I have yet to hear a gospel band announce: “Drink up. The drunker you are, the better we sound!” 
(Kinda goes along with “drink till she’s pretty”, doesn’t it?) 