Well that label man said son now can you sing a little bit more clear
Your voice might be too genuine and your song's a little too sincere
Can you sing a little more about outlaws and the way things used to be
He told me you just worry about writing them songs leaving everything else to me
Daddy was a Highwayman but he never wrote any old country songs
Papaw never stayed out raising hell til the break of dawn
But he raised a proud coal miners daughter and I'm proud to be her son
She told me boy I don't care if you hit it big, cause you’re already #1
That's the way it goes in this day & age
You ain't gotta read between the lines you just gotta turn the page
Well the most outlaw thing that I've ever done was give a good woman a ring
But that's the way it goes, life ain't fair and the world is mean
Well I still got the wife and the dog but I swapped the truck out for a van
Gonna hit the road find the end of that long white line in the promise land
Won’t hear my song on the radio cause that new sounds all the rage
But you can always find me in a smokey bar with bad sound and a dim lit stage
credits
from High Top Mountain,
released June 11, 2013
All songs written by Sturgill Simpson (published by Pan Bowl Music Ascap)
except
POOR RAMBLER (Ralph Stanley/Ray Cline) Fort Knox Music Inc. (BMI) / 1983 Trio Music Company (BMI), All Rights Administered by BUG Music, Inc., a BMG Chrysalis company.
and
I'D HAVE TO BE CRAZY (Steve Fromholz) 1973 Bughouse (ASCAP) / Prophecy Publishing, All Rights Administered by BUG Music, Inc., a BMG Chrysalis company. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
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1st time i heard DeathWish, i turned it off.
felt rushed, not the Isbell i've come to admire. really grab'd me when i took time to listen on the 2nd try. the writing on these songs stopped me in my tracks more than once. raw talent with just enough polish in the delivery.
thankyou Jason + 400 for another keeper swirlingmadness
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