Tytuł: Let 'er go

• Wykonawca: Jerry Jeff Walker
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   Last night I sat out on the boat dock and smoked a big cigar
  
  Let my mind drift back along the road of life
  I?ve traveled down so far
  Started out a dreamer with a suitcase in hand
  A guitar on my back without a care or a plan
  A gypsy boy hitchhiking down the road
  Ah here I go
  
  I fell in love at nineteen and
  I thought the world lay there in her eyes
  But the kind of life i talked about
  Was not the kind that she had in mind
  I was just a skinny kid who played the guitar
  One day i looked up and she went by in a car
  Driven by some guy i didn't know
  I let 'er go
  
  I went down to New Orleans,
  I?d never been to that locale
  Found some work bartending
  And I started running with some pals
  We had guitars and followed babe Stovall around
  We met some Cajun girls who had just drove into town
  They said that they were headed for the coast,
  We all said let's all go
  
  We were on life's adventure now,
  Traveling cross the great southwest
  When I first saw Texas
  I thought man this must be the best
  When I got to LA I just turned it around
  Their heads are up among the stars,
  There?s cracks in the ground
  I really couldn't care less if it blows,
  I said let 'er blow
  
  When I got back to Texas
  I thought man I finally found my place
  The people are so friendly
  And they always have a pleasant face
  The women all are pretty with a wink in their eye
  The cowboys at the bar are all so polite and shy
  Except when they ride the bulls at the rodeo,
  They say let 'er go
  
  Well I put a band together
  And we sat around and played songs that i like
  We sat around and worked them up
  'Till I thought we played them all just right
  The first gig that we ever played
  I stayed out too long
  Then we went out and partied
  And we stayed up 'till dawn
  The next night at the club I didn't show,
  The bartender said hey let 'em go
  
  I got lucky with some songs
  And they were hits on the radio
  Promoters said they needed some gonzo stuff
  For the country package show
  The record company said that they were caught by surprise
  They said you guys are really hard to categorize
  I don't think that they ever caught our show
  They just let us go
  
  Well I?ve traveled round the world
  And sang my songs for people that I?ve met
  I?ve made a lot of people smile
  And all in all I still have no regrets
  I?ve got a family that I love and they love me too
  I?ve got a band I travel with 'cause that's what we do
  And I see how quickly all the years have flown,
  I say let 'em go
  
  Last night I sat out on the boat dock
  And smoked a big cigar
  And let my mind drift back along the road of life
  I?ve traveled down so far
  I thought of all the places I have been in my life
  And all the places that I have to see 'fore I die
  I looked over at the boat tied to the dock,
  I said got on and let 'er go