Song Length |
4:05 |
Genre |
Country - General |
Tempo |
Very Fast (171 And Up) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Mood |
Joyful |
Subject |
Healing, Vegetables |
Similar Artists |
Alabama, Hank Williams |
Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Ma'd send me to fetch my Dad - from that ol' honky tonk bar
where on a jukebox I first heard - that train whistle voice and guitar
Ma knew she'd lost me too - when I started walkin' Dad home
his big hat on my little head - humming songs of drinking alone
A proud boy I used to pretend - our porch was the Opry stage
'round suppertime some whippoorwills - and those rolling Tennessee hills
put my first rhyme to a page
Chorus: THAT NIGHT A TEARSTAINED SONG
BECAME MY ONLY TOY
YES I THANK GOD I WAS BORN
BUT I * THANK * HANK * I'M A COUNTRY BOY
THOSE NIGHTS A TEARSTAINED SONG
BECAME MY ONLY JOY
YES, I THANK GOD I WAS BORN
BUT I * THANK * HANK * I'M A COUNTRY BOY
The clean air stays near the floor - 'neath the thick blue smoke at night
and there's a clean life somewhere - under the blue songs I write
but moonshine casts long shadows - behind every song I sing
I feel I'm just a puppet - someone else pulls my six-string
In those dusk to dawn saloons - when some drunk yells: 'play one more'
come dawn like a sad pedal steel - I let the whine of my fast wheels
down lost highways be my encore
CHORUS: WHEN..
Bridge: and in those wee-wee hours
nursed by whiskey sours
each new song is my flesh and bone
like children of my own
Chorus: WHEN I STEP ON STAGE
I FIND MY PRIDE AND JOY
THEN I THANK GOD I WAS BORN
BUT I * THANK * HANK * I'M A COUNTRY BOY
YES, I THANK GOD I WAS BORN
BUT I * THANK * HANK * I'M A COUNTRY BOY
(c) Robert George 2001