Go Down Swingin'

Story Behind The Song

I wrote this for my two daughters as my mother and father were dying, they were still very young and I was realizing that I might not be around that long myself...

Song Description

Baseball and boxing imagery used to urge the listener to never give up

Song Length 5:06 Genre Country - Alternative, Folk - Country
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Composed, Sociable Similar Artists Lucinda Williams, Ricky Skaggs
Language English Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

Go Down Swingin?
Words and music by Eliot Osborn
copyright 1998 Y.M.I. Publishing ?

VERSE 1
Listen to me...Son, you wanna get this straight
You might wanna remember this when you step up to the plate
You can?t just stand there lookin?...big up when you?re in the ring
Take a shot, give it all you got...more than anything... you gotta

CHORUS
Go down swingin?...you gotta go down swingin?
Gotta go down swingin?...
Cuz when the birds start singin? and the lights go out
It?ll be too late for you to figure it out
So before I gotta go and join the angels singin?...
Gotta go down swingin?...yeah you gotta go down swingin?...

VERSE 2
You gotta come out of your corner, coiled up like a snake
Forget the rules, you ain?t in school you just do whatever it takes
And learn to take a lickin?...and never let it show
When you get hit , you just smile a bit, let everybody know you?re gonna

CHORUS
Go down swingin?...you gotta go down swingin?
Gotta go down swingin?...
Cuz when your head starts spinnin? and your lips get fat
Just about the time that your eyes roll back
You gotta let go...You can?t keep clingin?
You gotta go down swingin?...You gotta go down swingin?... Let?s go....

Instrumental solo

CHORUS
Cuz when the bells start ringin? and your lips get fat
Just about the time that your eyes roll back
You gotta let go...You can?t keep clingin?
You gotta go down swingin?...You gotta go down swingin?...

VERSE 3
Ah listen children...hear me out
Daddy wanna tell you a thing or two, what this life is all about
You gotta watch out for the left...You gotta watch out for the right
Most of all when you start to fall...Don?t give up the fight...you gotta

CHORUS
Go down swingin...You gotta go down swingin?
Gotta go down swingin?
Cuz when the birds start singin and the lights go out
It?ll be to late for you to figure it out
So before I gotta go ...join the angels singin? ... gotta
Go down swingin?... yeah you gotta go down swingin?... ( etc )




Lyrics Eliot Osborn Music Eliot Osborn
Producer Eliot Osborn Publisher Eliot Osborn
Performance Eliot Osborn with The Joint Chiefs

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