LONG TIME AGO, A

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Song Title
LONG TIME AGO, A
Writers
Silverstein, Jennings
Publisher
EVIL EYE MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
50%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Cowboys, Fences, Fire, Fly, History, Insane, Love, Rain, Running, Slavery, Story, Wife, Women, Years
Lyrics
I don’t look the way the av’rage cowboy singer looks
I’ll admit I’ve taken things I never should-a took
You can read a diff’rent story in a lotta diff’rent books
But even then you won’t really know
How it was a long time ago

Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren’t men
In spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then
They built their fences high but they couldn’t hold me in
I was born for the fire down below
And I learned to fly a long time ago

Don’t ask me about the years I spent out in the rain
About the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane
And don’t ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane
I think you already know
I told you that a long time ago

Me and old Willie Lordy we’ve been sold and bought
I guess y’all heard about some kind of system that we fought
We ain’t the only outlaws just the only ones they caught
They tried to run us off but Willie’s slow
And I quit runnin’ a long time ago.

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