1.The Living Bubba
I wake up tired and I wake up pissed
wonder how I ended up like this
I wonder why things happen like they do
but I don't wonder long cuz I got a show to do
I'm sick at my stomach from the A.Z.T.
Broke at my bank cuz that shit ain't free
but I'm here to stay, at least another week or two
I can't die now cuz I got another show to do
Don't give me no pity don't give me no grief
Wit till I die for sympathy
Just help me with this amp and a guitar or two
I can't die now cuz I got another show to do
Don't give me no preachin' no self servin'
I ain't no angel but nobody's deserving
I can dance on my own grave, Thank You!
but I can't die now cuz I got another show
Some people keep saying I can't last long
but I got my bands I got my songs,
liquor, beer, and nicotine to help me along
and I'm drunk and stubborn as they come
chain smoking, guitar picking, til I'm gone
Gone, gone, gone
I ain't got no political agenda
Ain't got no message for the youth of America
Except 'Wear a rubber and be careful who you screw'
And come see me next Friday cuz I got another show
Some people stop living long before they die
Work a dead end job just to scrape on by
but I keep living just to bend that note in two
and I can't die now cuz I got another show
2.Bulldozers And Dirt
Bulldozers and dirt , bulldozers and dirt
What's your mama got hidden up her shirt
I like to play and I like to work
But most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
I met your mama when I was nineteen
You couldn't have been anymore than three
She caught me stealing yall's color TV
She called the cops and they arrested me
She was the wildest thing I'd ever seen
the way she pointed that shotgun at me
the police hauled my ass off to jail
Your mama signed the trailer to help make the bail
She picked me up and drove me home
said, I'll learn you not to roam
Green green grass under my feet
but all I can think about's the dirt underneath
Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
Them red clay piles are heaven on earth
I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt
I got a pickup that's up on blocks
and I'm up to my ass in debt and hock
and I can't get the red stains off of my socks
and I can't get you off of my mind
I've lived with your mama for eleven years
Through good times, and bad times, fist fights and tears
but something comes over me when you come near
so won't you come over and sip on this beer
Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
I don't mean no harm, I just like to flirt
but most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt
behind the trailer, my desert
I don't mean no harm, I just like to flirt
but most of all I like bulldozers and dirt
3.Ronnie And Neil
Church blew up in Birmingham
Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason
All this hate and violence can't come to no good end
A stain on the good name.
A whole lot of good people dragged through the blood and glass
Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame
Meanwhile in North Alabama, Wilson Pickett comes to town
To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound
Meanwhile in North Alabama, Aretha Franklin comes to town
To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound
And out in California, a rock star from Canada writes a couple
of great songs about the
Bad shit that went down
'Southern Man' and 'Alabama' certainly told some truth
But there were a lot of good folks down here and Neil Young
wasn't around
Meanwhile in North Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town
To record with Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound
And they met some real good people, not racist pieces of shit
And they wrote a song about it and that song became a hit
Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
Rock stars today ain't half as real
Speaking their minds on how they feel
Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil
Now Ronnie and Neil became good friends their feud was just in
song
Skynyrd was a bunch of Neil Young fans and Neil he loved that
song
So He wrote 'Powderfinger' for Skynyrd to record
But Ronnie ended up singing 'Sweet Home Alabama' to the lord
And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them
around
Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
Rock stars today ain't half as real
Speaking their minds on how they feel
Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil
4.Zip City
Your Daddy was mad as hell
He was mad at me and you
When he tied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me out
of that ditch that I slid into
Don't know what his problem is
Why he keeps sending me away
Don't know why I put up with his shit
When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away
Your Daddy is a deacon down at the Salem Church of Christ
And he makes good money as long as Reynolds Wrap keeps
everything wrapped up tight
Your Mama's as good a wife and Mama as she can be
And your sister's puttin' that sweet stuff on everybody in town
but me
Your brother was the first-born, got ten fingers and ten toes
And it's a damn good thing cause he needs all twenty to keep the
closet door closed
Maybe it's the twenty-six mile drive from Zip City to Colbert
Heights
Keeps my mind clean
Gets me through the night
Maybe you're just a destination, a place for me to go
A way to keep from having to deal with my seventeen-year-old
mind all alone
Keep your drawers on, girl, it ain't worth the fight
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life
You say you're tired of me taking you for granted
Waiting up till the last minute to call you up and see what you
want to do
Well you're only fifteen, girl, you ain't got no secretary
And 'for granted' is a mighty big word for a country girl like
you
I think it's just your Daddy talking
Cause he knows that blood red carpet at the Salem Church of
Christ
Ain't gonna ever see no wedding between me and you
Zip City it's a good thing that they built a wall around you
Zip up to Tennessee or zip right down to Alabama
I got 350 heads on a 305 engine
I get ten miles to the gallon
I ain't got no good intentions
5.Let There Be Rock
Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old
And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me.
On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama, with a
half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling Big Mouth.
My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.
And I'd like to say, 'I'm sorry', but we lived to tell about it
And we lived to do a whole lot more crazy, stupid shit.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
With .38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band.
One night when I was seventeen, I drank a fifth of vodka on an
empty stomach, then drove over to a friend's house
And I backed my car between his parents' Cadillacs without a
scratch.
Then crawled to the back door and slithered through the key
hole, and sneaked up the stairs
And puked in the toilet.
I passed out and nearly drowned but his sister, DD, pulled me
out.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet
And the band that I was in played 'The Boys are Back in Town'.
Skynyrd was set to play Huntsville, Alabama, in the spring of
77, I had a ticket but it got cancelled.
So, the show, it was rescheduled for the 'Street Survivors
Tour'.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
So I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Ozzy Osbourne with
Randy Rhoads in 82
Right before that plane crash.
And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw AC／DC
With Bon Scott singing,'Let There Be Rock Tour'
With Bon Scott singing, LET THERE BE ROCK!
6.Marry Me
Well my daddy didn't pull out, but he never apologized
Rock and Roll means well, but it can't help tellin' young boys
lies
A baby on the ways a good enough reason to get you out alive
Get you out without having to swallow any pride
All my friends are restless, all they do is talk it down
Two or eight lanes, it don't matter, it's just another town
There's a fool on every corner, on every street in every one
And I'd rather be your fool nowhere than go somewhere and be no
one's
So marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me
Your Mama thinks I beat anything she's ever seen
But this old towns alright with me, there's nowhere I'd rather
be
Long as they stay mad at one another, well they can't get mad at
me
Every time I leave here something bad happens to me
Like a busted hand or finding some man laying where I sleep
She don't mean nothing to me, that's just how it goes round here
It's a cartoon town, I play my part and I ain't spoke her name
in years
So marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me
Your Mama thinks I beat anything she's ever seen
Well this old towns alright with me, there's nowhere I'd rather
be
Long as they stay mad at one another, well they can't get mad at
me
Let's go
I don't want anything I done to be nobodys fault
Even if they got more money and mouth than they got balls
Well that's just how it went down, right or wrong, it's just
that way
They're just, 'cause I don't run my mouth don't mean I got
nothing to say
Marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me
Your Mama thinks I beat anything she's ever seen
Well this old towns alright with me, there's nowhere I'd rather
be
Long as they stay mad at one another, well they can't get mad at
me
So marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me
Marry me, sweet thing won't you marry me
7.Sink Hole
I've Always Been A Religious Man
i've Always Been A Religious Man
but I Met The Banker And It Felt Like Sin
he Turned My Bailout Down
the Banker Man, He Let Into Me
let Into Me, Let Into Me
the Banker Man, He Let Into Me
and Spread My Name Around
he Thinks I Ain't Got A Lick Of Sense
cause I Talk Slow And My Money's Spent
i Ain't The Type To Hold It Against
but He Better Stay Off My Farm
cause It Was My Daddy's And His Daddy's Before
and His Daddy's Before And His Daddy's Before
five Generations And An Unlocked Door
and A Loaded Burglar Alarm.
lots Of Pictures Of My Purdy Family
lots Of Pictures Of My Purdy Family
lots Of Pictures Of My Purdy Family
in The House Where I Was Born.
house Has Stood Through Five Tornadoes
droughts, Floods, And Five Tornadoes
i'd Rather Wrastle An Alligator
than To Face The Banker's Scorn
cause He Won't Even Look Me In The Eye
he Just Takes My Land And Apologize
with Pen, Paper, And A Friendly Smile
he Says The Deed Is Done.
the Sound You Hear Is My Daddy Spinning
the Sound You Hear Is My Daddy Spinning
the Sound You Hear Is My Daddy Spinning
over What The Banker Done.
like To Invite Him For Some Pot Roast Beef
and Mashed Potatoes And Sweet Tea
follow It Up With Some Banana Pudding
and A Walk Around The Farm
show Him The View From Mcgee Town Hill
let Him Stand In My Shoes And See How It Feels
to Lose The Last Thing On Earth That's Real
i'd Rather Lose My Legs And Arms
bury His Body In The Old Sink Hole
bury His Body In The Old Sink Hole
bury His Body In The Old Sink Hole
under Cold November Sky
then Damned If I Wouldn't Go To Church On Sunday
damned If I Wouldn't Go To Church On Sunday
damned If I Wouldn't Go To Church On Sunday
and Look The Preacher In The Eye.
8.Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Life ain't nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs
Dammit Elvis, don't you know
You made your Mama so proud
Before you ever made that record, before there ever was a Sun
Before you ever lost that Cadillac that Carl Perkins won
Mr. Phillips found old Johnny Cash and he was high
High before he ever took those pills and he's still too proud to
die
Mr. Phillips never said anything behind nobody's back
Like 'Dammit Elvis, don't he know, he ain't no Johnny Cash'
If Mr. Phillips was the only man that Jerry Lee still would call
sir
Then I guess Mr. Phillips did all of Y'all about as good as you
deserve
He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in
sacks
New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac
I got friends in Nashville, or at least they're folks I know
Nashville is where you go to see if what they said is so
Carl drove his brand new Cadillac to Nashville and he went
downtown
This time they promised him a Grammy
He turned his Cadillac around
Mr. Phillips never blew enough hot air to need a little gold
plated paperweight
He promised him a Cadillac and put the wind in Carl's face
He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in
sacks
New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Dammit Elvis, I swear son I think it's time you came around
Making money you can't spend ain't what being dead's about
You gave me all but one good reason not to do all the things you
did
Now Cadillacs are fiberglass, if you were me you'd call it quits
9.Outfit
You want to grow up to paint houses like me,
a trailer in my yard till you're 23
You want to be old after 42 years,
keep dropping the hammer and grinding the gears
Well, I used to go out in a Mustang, a 302 Mach One in green.
Me and your Mama made you in the back and I sold it to buy her a
ring.
And I learned not to say much of nothing and I figured you
already know
But in case you don't or maybe forgot, I'll lay it out real nice
and slow
Don't call what your wearing an outfit. Don't ever say your car
is broke.
Don't worry about losing your accent, a Southern Man tells
better jokes.
Have fun but stay clear of the needle. Call home on your
sister's birthday.
Don't tell them you're bigger than Jesus, don't give it away.
Six months in a St. Florian foundry, they call it Industrial
Park.
Then hospital maintenance and Tech School just to memorize
Frigidaire parts.
But I got to missing your Mama and I got to missing you too.
So I went back to painting for my old man and I guess that's
what I'll always do
So don't try to change who you are boy, and don't try to be who
you ain't.
And don't let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of
wealthy-man's paint.
Don't call what your wearing an outfit. Don't ever say your car
is broke.
Don't sing with a fake British accent. Don't act like your
family's a joke.
Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your
sister's birthday.
Don't tell them you're bigger than Jesus, Don't give it away.
Don't give it away
10.The Righteous Path
I got a brand new car that drinks a bunch of gas
I got a house in a neighborhood that's fading fast
I got a dog and a cat that don't fight too much
I got a few hundred channels to keep me in touch
I got a beautiful wife and three tow-headed kids
I got a couple of big secrets I'd kill to keep hid
I don't know God but I fear his wrath
I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path
I got a couple of opinions that I hold dear
A whole lot of debt and a whole lot of fear
I got an itch that needs scratching but it feels alright
I got the need to blow it out on Saturday night
I got a grill in the backyard and a case of beers
I got a boat that ain't seen the water in years
More bills than money, I can do the math
I'm trying to keep focused on the righteous path
I'm trying to keep focused as I drive down the road
On the ditches and the curves and the heavy load
Ain't bitching bout things that aren't in my grasp
Just trying to hold steady on the righteous path
There's this friend of mine I've known all my life
Who can't get it right no matter how hard he tries
He's got kids he don't see and several ex-wives
And a list of bad decisions bout eight miles wide
Trouble with the law and the IRS
And where he'll get the money's anybody's guess
He's a long way off but if you was to ask
He'd say he's trying to stay focused on the righteous path
Trying to keep focused as we drive down the road
Like we did back in High School before the world turned cold
Now the brakes are thin and the curves are fast
We're trying to hold steady on the righteous path
We're hanging out and we're hanging on
We're trying the best we can to keep keeping on
We got messed up minds for these messed up times
And it's a thin thin line separating his from mine
Trying to hold steady on the righteous path
80 miles and hour with a worn out map
No time for self-pity or self-righteous crap
Trying to stay focused on the righteous path
11.Gravity's Gone(Remix)
I went stumbling through the fog
Trying to find a reason for the things i told her
She woke up sunny side down
And i was still thinking i was too proud to flip her over
Between the champagne hand jobs
And the kissing ass by everyone involved
Cocaine rich comes quick
And that's why the small dicks have it all
So i'll meet you at the bottom if there really is one
They always told me when you hit it you'll know it
But i've been falling so long
It's like gravity's gone and i'm just floating
Those little demons ain't the reasons
For the bruises on your soul you've been neglecting
You'll never lose your mind
As long as you're heart always reminds you where you left it
And don't ever let them make you feel
Like saying what you want is unbecoming
If you were supposed to watch your mouth all the time
I doubt your eyes would be above it
So i'll meet you at the bottom if there really is one
They always told me when you hit it you'll know it
But i've been falling so long
It's like gravity's gone and i'm just floating
Between the champagne hand jobs
And the kissing ass by everyone involved
What used to be is gone
And what ought to be ought not to be so hard
So i'll meet you at the bottom if there really is one
They always told me when you hit it you'll know it
But i've been falling so long
It's like gravity's gone and i'm just floating
I've been falling so long
It's like gravity's gone and i'm just floating
I've been falling so long
It's like gravity's gone and i'm just floating
12.Never Gonna Change
Let this be a lesson to you girl..
Don't come around where you know you don't belong.
They're riding on the avenue and probably coming after you
and they all look mean and strong.
Mean and strong like liquor.
Mean and strong like fear.
Strong like the people from South Alabama
and mean like the people from here.
Take it from me.. We ain't never gonna change.
Daddy used to empty out his shotgun shells
and fill 'em full of black-eyed peas.
He'd aim real low and tear out your ankles
or rip right through your knees.
There ain't much traffic on the highway.
There ain't much traffic on the lake.
The ATF and the ABI got everything they could take.
Take it from me.. They didn't take it from me.
We ain't never gonna change.
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
We ain't never gonna change
So shut your mouth and play along.
I thought about going in the army.
I thought about going overseas.
I wouldn't have trouble with a piss test
only problem is my bad left knee.
My brother got picked up at Parker's,
got him a ride in a new Crown Vic.
They said that he was movin' on a federal level
but they couldn't really make it stick.
Take it from me..
We ain't never gonna change.
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
We ain't never gonna change
So shut your mouth and play along.
You can throw me in the Colbert County jailhouse.
You can throw me off the Wilson Dam
But there ain't much difference in the man
I wanna be and the man I really am.
We ain't never gonna change.
We ain't doin' nothin' wrong.
We ain't never gonna change
So shut your mouth and play along.
We ain't never gonna change.
We ain't never gonna change.
We ain't never gonna change.
We ain't never gonna change.
13.Three Dimes Down
It was a straight shot
All it took was luck to not get caught
I laid three dimes down and the machine wanted 25 cents
In the back seat her and a friend,
One out the window and the other on the other end
One belt loop away from Sunday night's news
If the part about being who he was didn't help Tom get loose,
What's a guy without a T. gonna get？ Totally screwed,
While chicken wing puke eats the candy apple red off his
Corvette
Three dimes down and 25 cents shy of a slice of the Doublemint
twins
Come back baby, Rock and Roll never forgets
14.Lookout Mountain
If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain
No more for my soul to keep
I wonder who will drive my car
I wonder if my Mom will weep
If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain
No more pain my soul to bare
No more worries about paying taxes
What to eat, what to wear
Who will end up with my records？
Who will end up with my tapes？
Who will pay my credit card bills？
Who's gonna pay for my mistakes？
If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain who will ever hear my
songs？
Who's gonna mow the cemetery when all of my family's gone？
Who will Mom and Daddy find to continue the family name？
Who will stand there taking credit, who will lay there passing
blame？
Who will lay there passing blame？
15.Uncle Frank(Alternate Version)
They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice.
Now we got more electricity than we canever use.
They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved
out, but they
got paid so there ain't nothin' else to think about.
Some of them made their living cutting the timber down, snaking
it one log at
a time up the hill and into town. T.V.A. had a way to clear it
off real fast.
Lots of men and machinary, build a dam and drown the rest.
Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek, bought fifteen
acres when he
got back home from overseas. Fifteen rocky acres, figured noone
else would
want, till all that backed up water had to have some place to
go.
Uncle Frank couldn't read or write. Never held down a job, or
needed one in
his life. They assured him there'd be work for him in town
building cars. It's
already going down.
The cars never came to town and the roads never got built and
the price of all
that power kept on going straight uphill. The banks around the
hollow sold for
lake-front property where Doctors, Lawyers, and Musicians teach
their kids to waterski.
Uncle Frank couldn't read or write so there was no note or
letter found where he died.
Just a rope around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it's
side
16.A World Of Hurt
Once upon a time, my advice to you would have been go out and
find yourself a whore
But I guess I've grown up, because I don't give that kind of
advice anymore
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
I was 27 when I figured out that blowing my brains out wasn't
the answer
So I decided, maybe I should find a way to make this world work
out for me
And my good friend Paul was 83 when he told me; that 'To love is
to feel pain'
And I thought about that then and I've thought about that again
and again
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
'To love is to feel pain' there ain't no way around it
The very nature of love is to grieve when it is over
The secret to a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits
Better roll them now before something else goes wrong
Know it's a wonderful world, if you can put aside the sadness
And hang on to every ounce of beauty upon you
Better take the time to know it,
If you feel anything at all
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
So if what you have is working for you, or you think that it
stands a reasonable chance, and whatever's broken seems fixable
and nothing's beyond repair
If you still think about each other and smile before you
remember how screwed up it's gotten or maybe still dream of a
time less rotten
Remember, it ain't too late to take a deep breath and throw
yourself into it with everything you've got
It's great to be alive
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
Gonna be a world of hurt
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