Lyrics

The secret to life
© 2007 Danny McIntosh & Wayne Murphy

Front porch of the general store in a Blue Ridge Mt. Town
We went down to visit my uncle and he let me follow him around
Just me and the good ol boys telling jokes and wasting away
talking bout there life in the hills and making fun of the rat race

My uncle handed me a coke and said I've got a secret for you
he reached down deep in his pocket, said it's a little worn out but it ought to do
Your grand dad gave it to me in the summer I turned nine.
But with this pocket knife son comes the secret to life.

Chorus
You never Back Down from a fight, and try to use your words
know the difference between wrong and right and never swing first
walk around real proud with your lady on your arm.
keep your eyes to the sky and your roots were they were grown.

Verse 2
Now I'm a little older now around the corner of my life
I've been places and I?ve seen faces go by
I've split in the clouds and I've walked through a ditch
and I've been to heaven once and i remember where hell is.

each time the opportunity arrives, I just reach on back to that old pocket knife
and I try

Chorus

SOLO

Herbert passed away in the spring of 02
He passed this on to me, and now I'm passing it on to you
Now this old pocket knife has more then steel in the blade
Reminds me of a front porch, a few cokes, and what I learned that Day.

Chrous