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Written by Tony Mullins, Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman
Shoulda seen the look on the face of the boss of the second shift,
When I threw my hard hat at him,
An' suggested the box where he could stick it.
I walked downstairs an told 'em I was leavin' Bethlehem,
Like I'd seen the Saviour, had tears in my eyes,
Holdin' my hands up an' shoutin': Amen.
'Cause there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.
I spent most of my life a-wrapped up tight,
In somebody else's hand-me-down old shoes.
Startin' today, I'm someone I'd be proud to know:
You might tell me where to go,
But there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.
We buried Daddy just last week at the church to save his soul.
Man, he dreamed of pilot's wings:
Spent his whole life diggin' coal.
I got a guitar under my bed, but I've been too scared to fly.
But that's enough of that stuff, I'm packin' up my truck:
They can just kiss my butt goodbye.
'Cause there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.
I spent most of my life a-wrapped up tight,
In somebody else's hand-me-down old shoes.
Startin' today, I'm someone I'd be proud to know:
You might tell me where to go,
But there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.
'Cause there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.
(Ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.)
I spent most of my life wrapped up tight,
In somebody else's hand-me-down old shoes.
Startin' today, I'm someone I'd be proud to know:
You might tell me where to go,
But there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.
- Album:
- Red White & Blue
- Get Right With the Man
- Get right with a man
- My Kind of Country
- Miscellaneous
- Red White & Blue (Live)
- Van Zant II
- Brother to Brother
- Promo Only: Country Radio, April 2005
- Lynyrd Skynyrd Family
- New Music Sampler, Volume 4
- Totally Country, Volume 5
- Rock in Love
- Rock Times, Volume 22: 1997-1998
- Cream of Country, Volume 9
- Promo Only: Country Radio, June 2007
- Rock Is Back
- Promo Only: Country Radio, June 2006
- Promo Only: Country Radio, October 2005
- Family