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Nashville Drinking Song
It’s my last Friday night
in the lights of the big city
When the sun comes up
I’ll be eighty miles down the road
I won’t be looking back in tears
Or feeling any self pity
I’ll be grinning like a cat knowing
I am going home
One more beer and I’m outta here
I’m trading in this concrete
Trading in these steel walls
Going back to the country
Where the skies are big and blue
The only thing around here
that could give me any pause
Is knowing when I’m leaving
I am leaving you
One more beer and I’m outta here
Goodbye sirens
Goodbye city lights
Goodbye big dreams,
Goodbye wealth and fame
Goodbye traffic jams
Goodbye modern life
Goodbye Nashville
Please forget my name.
One more beer and I’m outta here
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There's a Part of Me
03:20
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There’s a part of me
There’s a part of me
That I wish you knew
It counts the stars at night
That you and I are through
Though my broken heart is badly bruised
It heals a little everyday
That I spend away from you
I think about them summer days
When I’d listen to you complain
How the sunshine wasn’t bright enough
The cold beers they weren’t cold enough
That aged like a banana on a sill
There’s a part of me
That I wish you knew
It counts the stars at night
That you and I are through
Though my broken heart is badly bruised
It heals a little everyday
That I spend away from you
I remember that Christmas
When you got a neck tattoo
And your momma cried and
Spent the holidays holed up inside her room
She said that you can’t be buried
With your family anymore
There’s a part of me
That I wish you knew
Stays up late at night
And hopes that you’ll pull through
Though my broken heart is badly bruised
It heals a little everyday
That I spend away from you
Seems like your paydays
Are always just around the bend
But when the bill comes
It’s just me again
And you’re off on some High Horse
Singing ‘Hi Ho Silver in the Wind’
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It Happened
04:01
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It happened
Well I was standing in an alley
In the shadow of the valley
Of the mountains in eastern Tennessee
The day started partly cloudy
But it ended bright and loudly
With a message straight from God above to me
We started at the whirlpool
With this girl I knew from High School
Then we skipped off down to party at The Red
But those clouds began to mingle
My skin began to tingle
Then lightning struck me right upside the head
It happened, I swear that it happened
Hand to heart, eyes to god it happened to me
So officer if you take me downtown
You better insulate the penitentiary
I came to just quakin’,
shiverin’ and shaking
My hair was laid out all over the ground
I went home to think
But I could barely sleep a wink
For dreaming of that terrifying sound
When I started the next morning
It was raining it was storming
I went to let me old hound dog out of the pen
When I went to call her
With that old familiar holler
Boom, lightning strikes again
It happened, I swear that it happened
Hand to heart, eyes to god it happened to me
So officer if you take me downtown
You better insulate the penitentiary
I woke up 3 days later
On my porch holding the paper
My hound dog had moved back in with my ex
I barely had a dollar
Nothing to drink nothing to swaller
No porch no hair no dog and no respect
So I went down to the credit union
To find myself some breathing room
I walked in I heard thunder and I’ll admit
That maybe I lost it
But I wasn’t trying to rob it
I may be broke but I ain’t no hypocrite
It happened, I swear that it happened
Hand to heart, eyes to god it happened to me
So officer if you take me downtown
You better insulate the penitentiary
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4. |
A Golden Smile
01:48
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A Golden Smile
If I had a golden smile
If I had a golden smile
I’d put it on my face darling
Every time you came around
But I don’t have a golden smile
So it don’t matter anyhow.
If I had a heart of stone
If I had a heart of stone
Ventricles of granite
Pumping gravels thru my veins
I don’t have a heart of stone
So it don’t matter anyways.
If I had a dollar bill
If I had 10 dollar bills
I’d spend it all on you darling
Every last burnt red cent
My money has been spent
I don’t have a dollar bill.
If I had a soul to sell
If I had a soul to sell
I’d put a sign up in my window
That says ‘Buy one get one free’
Then I’d sell em your soul too
So you’d always be with me
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Eight Thirty Eighteen
02:06
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eight thirty eight teen
Frankly this whole thing has gotten out of hand
Like a permanent structure being built in the sand
Or a buck ass private being put in command
Of a war bound USS Abraham
How many times must the hammer come down
Before we pick up the nail and turn this thing around
It’s like we keep falling deeper and deeper into a shallow grave
Anger, bitterness, deception, and strife
And stupidity just seem to be raining from the sky
I’m tired of being put upon and spit upon and lied to
By every baby boomer in a dark blue suit
The only thing I know is that I don’t know it all
And I know that you don’t either
Seems like the whole damn world can’t even concentrate
We couldn’t hit a meatball thrown right across the plate
We should be rounding bases, this shouldn’t be a challenge
Instead we’re burning mountains for a couple miles a gallon
If I turn off my tv, if I turn off my computer
Will that stop some crazy asshole from shooting up a school
The only things I know is that I don’t know at all
And I know that you don’t either
Will the history books say we were simply complacent
We relied too much on others, we were way too patient
We were misinformed or too informed or just ignored and downplayed
The fact that these things ain’t going away
Or will they say that we kept falling deeper and deeper into a shallow grave
The only thing I know is that I don’t know at all
And I know that you don’t either
The only thing I know is that I don’t know at all
And I know that you don’t either
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Randy Steele Chattanooga, Tennessee
Banjo pickin' Singer Songwriter from Chattanooga Tennessee and frontman for Slim Pickins
Bluegrass
2018 NewSong Leaf Festival Songwriting Competition Finalist. 2017 Blast On the Bay Upcoming Artist
16th Annual IMA Bluegrass Song Fan Winner for 'Mobile Soon"
16th Annual IMA Bluegrass album of the year Nomination
for "Songs from the Suck"
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