Grandma was a honky-tonk special.
Grandpa was a low down no good man.
Daddy left when I was just a baby,
And Mama sang in a honky-tonk band.
And the only life I know is the life I'm living.
The only love I know is a one night stand.
The only friends I've got are drinking buddies.
I ain't nothing but a honky-tonk man.
I was nursed on a bottle of Old Crow.
I was smoking two packs a day by the age of three.
By ten, I'd spent half my life in prison.
Well, the lowdown life is the only life for me.
And the only life I know is the life I'm living...
I once had the love of a good-hearted woman.
She tried to steer me right but I just did wrong.
Well I lost the love of that good-hearted woman.
Now all I got left is this old honky-tonk song.
And the only life I know is the life I'm living...
1 Songs and poems are similar but not the same. A song follows the rhythm of the music. A poem follows the rhythm of its own words.
Iwant to hear you sing it, Slimbo
ReplyDeleteI sing really loudly. Maybe if you listen carefully, you'll hear it off in the distance.
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