By the pool tables, upstairs at the White Water Tavern in Little Rock, I saw an ad for lawyer in a newspaper. The lawyer had his picture in the ad and he looked weary and beaten in the photo, which was surprising because they usually try to look like Superman in those ads. Adam said, "it looks like that old boy's ready to crawl in that hole." We thought of an Ohio car dealer we knew and an anesthesiologist who got tired of practicing medicine and wrote the song in ten minutes.