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Written by Bobby Pinson and Billy Joe Walker
That Friday night seemed just like any other Friday night,
Jimmy wasn't gonna play.
Sittin' on the bench chompin' at the bit, knowin' he was better.
Five, six, goin' on 6a.
A man went down, Jimmy went in:
Third an' long, first an' ten.
Crowd went wild: Touchdown.
Jimmy said: I
came
to
win.
If you're gonna go, go all the way.
If you're gonna stay, stay in your ground.
If you can't run with the big dogs, big dog,
Let me walk you out.
If you can't lead, let me buy you.
If you won't follow, get out the way:
You're takin' up space.
Shelly had her Daddy's money waitin',
All she had to do was share his chair.
She had a dream that he didn't wanna chase her.
She was a night-school millionaire.
She worked two jobs to pay her way:
Stayed up late to make the grade.
Graduated, super-cool hearted.
PhD the hard way.
If you're gonna go, go all the way.
If you're gonna stay, stay in your ground.
If you can't run with the big dogs, big dog,
Let me walk you out.
If you can't lead, let me buy you.
If you won't follow, get out the way:
You're takin' up space.
Instrumental Break.
Life's too short to live in caution.
Life's too long not to live it all.
Oh, if you're gonna go, go all the way.
If you're gonna stay, stay in your ground.
If you can't run with the big dogs, big dog,
Let me walk you out.
If you can't lead, let me buy you.
If you won't follow, get out the way:
You're takin' up space.
Oh, you're takin' up space.
Get out the way!
- 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