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Glenn Jones - SURVIVE

from Round 31, Week 1 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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The theme I picked, came into my head unbidden, was "survival".
Thinking initially that it was kind of bleak and limiting, but now thinking maybe that's a good thing, to make me stretch.

Totally out of my wheelhouse, no idea where from, somehow a Kenny Wayne Shepherd belter came out.

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SURVIVE


I was just 19, tall skinny and green
When I landed at Truong Lam
Saw more in 2 years than you should in 10 lifetimes
Dodged death till I did not give a damn
Still I knelt and kissed the tarmac
That night back home I arrived
I knew I’d that no matter what came
I was gonna survive

I smuggled cigarettes North up from the South
Been halfway beat to kingdom come
Had a .44 muzzle pushed in my mouth
Cocked back by a shaky thumb
But I kept on going, pushing on past
Nobody gonna kill my drive
I’ll do what I gotta do to make it through
You know somehow, I’m a gonna survive

I’ve done gone 5 million miles
Six continents, and every state
You think I would be slowing down
Find family and God ‘fore it’s too late
Though every bad thing someday ends
The pavement stops on every run
I’ll keep on going till I’m not
I ain’t done till I say I’m done

I’m like an alligator snapper lurking
Way down in his ancient muddy lair
Anything trying to mess with me
I’m old and mean, and don’t fight fair
Taken every hit them all can dish out
And somehow I’m still alive
So world, please leave alone my stringy sinew and bone
Cuz whatever you got in mind, I’ll survive

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from Round 31, Week 1, released February 15, 2021

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