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Song Information:

Same setup, except I plugged a Telecaster into the PowerBook this time. The tempo of this one is all over the place because I can't keep time for shit.

Words and Music-Patrick Clark
Vocal-Patrick
Guitars-Patrick
Drums-Mark Beasley

I wrote this song sort of as a "what-if". What if I never left my home town, just stuck around and did what everyone else did. Originally titled (Get Out Of) Bedford County

Song Lyrics:

I grew up in a big little town, life there was all that I knew
I saw things on TV that looked like fun but my daddy said, "Son, that ain't for you."
Well, I came up straight and I came up fast
I blasted through the streets of my town
But when I got to the edge all I saw was a light
And a road that ran a hundred miles down

Chorus

Get out of Lincoln County (Just as fast as you can)
Get out of Lincoln County (Before they make you a man)
Get out of Lincoln County (They have only one plan)

You'll be tied down, hitched up and pissed off if you don't make a stand
So get out of Lincoln County, boy...............just as fast as you can

Verse 2

I took a job in a factory here, I went to work every day
I married my girl and we had us a kid, I thought that was the only way
But then I got bored and then I got mad
I started stayin' out all night
I'm chasing a shadow that I never can catch
Hoping someday that I might...

Repeat Chorus

Verse 3

I stopped all my runnin' and I raised up my boy, I tried to teach him wrong from right
He gets into trouble and he gives me some hell, he's started stayin' out late at night
Well he's gettin' restless and he's gettin' wild
He's reminding me of someone I knew
He asked me, "Pop, what should I do with my life?"
I told him the only thing that I knew



© 2005 Patrick Clark