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Well I was born across the water, born a son and not a daughter
One cold day in 1953
In my early recollections, ainât no kind words of affection
Just the sound of daddyâs hand slappinâ me
So I grew up fast and hard and somewhat bitter
As kids will do when theyâve been knocked around
And of the many things I am, hell Iâm no quitter
Cause I got back up each time he knocked me down
Oh and I canât blame him none
For anything he done
Cause he was doinâ what his bible told him to
Now to change my wild behavior
He was praying to his savior
While I was doinâ what the hell I wanted to
And as a boy I was ambitious and them girls all looked delicious
And I tasted every one that I could find
But my momma was a teacher and my dad a Baptist preacher
And he never spared the rod on my behind
Yeah but I canât blame him none
For anything he done
Cause he was doinâ what his bible told him to
Now to change my wild behavior
He was praying to his savior
While I was doinâ what the hell I wanted to
Now when my daddy he lay dyinâ
And my brother sat there cryinâ
I was lost in some old childhood scene
Where my daddy was a sayinâ
Son youâd better get to prayinâ
Cause thereâs heaven and thereâs hell and no between
And I canât blame him none
For anything he done
Cause he was doinâ what the bible told him to
To change my wild behavior
He was praying to his savior
While I was doinâ what the hell I wanted to
Yeah to change my wild behavior
He was praying to his savior
While I was doinâ what the hell I wanted to
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- Old Friend
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