I’m lyin’ in my jeans and dreamin’ ‘bout a girl in Omaha Now in this Super 8 in Reno, a couple screamin’ through the wall This honky-tonkin’ way of livin’ I’ve been livin’ way too long ‘Scuse me if I’m late for heaven - I just lived a country song. There are mornings when I wonder what I can show for all my time But I sure can sing with feeling: “Whiskey river take my mind.” I can’t recall the early ‘90s, and these last 10 I’d rather not My first single hit the big time, for a while there I was hot Swingin’ doors and whiskey river: the first words I learned to say Willie, Merle, and all those outlaws was all that Daddy’d ever play These beer joints where I’m workin’ I started workin’ at 16Īnd if I look a little ragged, must be those 30 years between. I’m like the Sun that keeps burnin’ - I’m like a wheel that spins on You can’t hardly stop rolling, when you’ve been round too long. If I raised some Cain, lived a little insane, it never was a plan of mine Lord to be an angel ‘fore my time!Īll of you young people preachin’ ain’t had the chance to go wrong Well it’s too late to go straight when you been round too long. Won’t you put me in Kentucky when my time on earth has ceased ‘Cause out of all the men who hurt me, Jack Daniels hurt me least They can’t make you walk no line when you’ve been round too long.

This ain’t an old-folks reunion, this ain’t a Johnny Cash song There’s fire on my fingers, and fever on my brow. I’m like a record that won’t wear out, I’m like a wheel that spins on You can’t hardly stop rolling, when you’ve been round too long.ĭown in Flagstaff, Arizona, there’s a tavern where I’m barred They say I caused a riot back in ’78 by rockin’ the joint too hard If you can’t take the beat, get out of my kitchen now I was drownin’ in a sea of whiskey when they were dreamin’ ‘bout Liverpool Ever since I was a child I was fast and wild, I guess I’m a wild one still ‘Cause when you say ‘you can’t’ - you know I will.

When the girls was playin’ at jumprope, I was playin’ the men for fools If a rough road goes there, you can bet I’ve been I was playin’ the piano in a honky-tonk before you bragged about that If it’s a song about hard hard livin’, it’s a song I’m livin’ in I’m the sister of a hellraiser, the daughter of an old tomcat

Wild wild wild song