If This Redneck's Rockin' - J.C. Bridwell

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor If you're old or young Everybody, every now and then has got to have some fun So, turn up the music, turn up the juice Just put me in the spotlight and turn me loose You better hold on tight This country's gonna rock tonight This country's rockin' To the beat of a brand-new drum Back in Kentucky, where I come from They love to hear that old guitar strum This country's rockin' Jump back and let the bad boys play Everywhere across the USA This country's rockin' all the way You might ride a horse, drive a Porsche or cruise in limousines Eat caviar with champagne or cornbread with your pinto beans But there's one thing in which we all agree We love our country music like the queen loves tea What a lovely sight We're gonna rock tonight This country's rockin' To the beat of a brand-new drum Back in Kentucky, where I come from They love to hear that old guitar strum This country's rockin' Jump back and let the bad boys play Everywhere across the USA This country's rockin' all the way (Ago, feel me) This country's rockin' To the beat of a brand-new drum Back in Kentucky, where I come from They love to hear that old guitar strum This country's rockin' Jump back and let the bad boys just play Everywhere across the USA This country's rockin' all the way Everywhere across the USA This country's rockin' all the way

(I know) just bunch of crazy kids Look at all the things we did Never thought it'd end like this (Oh-oh, wake up) playing the high school band Never really had a plan Made it to the promised land (oh-oh) (So here's a toast) To me and you and every single show (Cheers, a toast) To living fast but always dancing slow (Here's a toast) To saying yes whenever I said no If this is goodbye (if this is goodbye) Let's take one more shot for the memories Life's too short to be enemies And if this ends tonight (if this ends tonight) You can save your tears for the other guys I'll see you in another life (I know) every story has to end We may never comprehend What a crazy ride it's been (oh-oh) (Oh no) we may never be best friends For a couple of hours we can For a couple of hours, pretend (So here's a toast) To me and you and every single show (Cheers, a toast) To living fast but always dancing slow (Here's a toast) To saying yes whenever I said no If this is goodbye (if this is goodbye) Lets take one more shot for the memories Life's too short to be enemies And if this ends tonight (if this ends tonight) You can save your tears for the other guys I'll see you in another life Goodbye And if maybe the stars align I'll see you in another life You're missing all the time to cry We have one more night so If this is goodbye, yeah Let's sing one more song for the memories (Life's too short to be enemies) And if this ends tonight You can save your tears for the other guys (I'll see you in another life) If this is goodbye (goodbye, goodbye, goodbye) Let's take one more shot for the memories Life's too short to be enemies And if this ends tonight (if this ends tonight) You can save your tears for the other guys I'll see you in another life Goodbye And maybe if the stars align I'll see you in another life You're missing all the time to cry We have one more night, goodbye

The trouble with the straight and the narrow Is its so thin, I keep sliding off to the side And the devil makes good use of these hands of mine And if Jesus is the straight path that saves Then I'm condemned to live my whole life on the curb On the crossroads with the devil, I'll dwell and I'll count my years You know that I got a little something I should say I guess that I'm just so easily led astray It's alright because I know my own way back home from here And I don't fall of the wagon you know I take a dive and go as deep as I can go Don't hold your breath cause I'm coming up slow, this time. And the trouble with the straight and the narrow Is its so thin, I keep sliding off to the side And the devil makes good use of these hands of mine You know that I got a little problem or two I guess that I keep on taking a few I've been told its not the best thing that I can do, right now And I don't go looking for my sins you know They come out waiting, and I just get on and go Don't hold your breath cause I'm coming up slow this time And the trouble with the straight and the narrow Is its so thin, I keep sliding off to the side And the devil makes good use of these hands of mine And if Jesus is the straight path that saves Then I'm condemned to live my whole life on the curb On the crossroads with the devil, I'll dwell and I'll count my years And the devil makes (straight and narow's so thin) And the devil makes (straight and narow's so thin) And the devil makes, good use of these hands of mine And the devil makes (straight and narow's so thin) And the devil makes (straight and narow's so thin) And the devil makes, good use of these hands of mine

Please, remember me happily By the rosebush laughing With bruises on my chin The time when we counted every black car passing Your house beneath the hill and up until Someone caught us in the kitchen With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank A vision too removed to mention But please, remember me fondly I heard from someone you're still pretty And then they went on to say that the pearly gates Had some eloquent graffiti Like "We'll meet again" and "Fuck the man" And "Tell my mother not to worry" And angels with their gray handshakes Were always done in such a hurry And please, remember me at Halloween Making fools of all the neighbors Our faces painted white by midnight We'd forgotten one another And when the morning came, I was ashamed Only now it seems so silly That season left the world and then returned But now you're lit up by the city So please, remember me mistakenly In the window of the tallest tower call Then pass us by but much too high To see the empty road at happy hour Gleam and resonate just like the gates Around the holy kingdom With words like "Lost and found" and "Don't look down" And "Someone save temptation" And please, remember me as in the dream We had as rug-burned babies Among the fallen trees and fast asleep Beside the lions and the ladies That called you what you like and even might Give a gift for your behavior A fleeting chance to see a trapeze Swinger high as any savior But please, remember me, my misery And how it lost me all I wanted Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains The colored birds above their running In circles 'round the well and where it spells On the wall behind St. Peter's So bright on cinder gray and spray paint "Who the hell can see forever?" And please, remember me seldomly In the car behind the carnival My hand between your knees, you turn from me And said the trapeze act was wonderful But never meant to last, the clowns that passed Saw me just come up with anger When it filled with circus dogs, the parking lot Had an element of danger So please, remember me, finally And all my uphill clawing, my dear But if I make the pearly gates Do my best to make a drawing Of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl An angel kissing on a sinner A monkey and a man, a marching band All around the frightened trapeze swingers Na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na, na-na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na-na

Tonight we're the sea and the salty breeze The milk from your breast is on my lips And lovelier words from your mouth to me When salty my sweat and fingertips Our hands they seek the end of afternoons My hands believe and move over you Tonight, we're the sea and the rhythm there The waves and the wind and night is black Tonight we're the scent of your long black hair Spread out like your breath across my back Your hands they move like waves over me Beneath the moon, tonight, we're the sea