Rock While I Can Rock

My father dead and gone he said that poor old stubborn man

Spent his whole life arguin' with that red clay Georgia land

Finally got so weak an' all he could not even walk

It all went down from there an' I swear he could not even talk

Hey life'll wear you down now dude an' time will take its toll

Tryna rock while I can rock I'm tryna roll while I can roll

My father met my ma they almost married on the spot

Turned eighteen in church an' moved in right back on the lot

An' all them work years later she's the only gal he'd known

It might be fine for him but I got lightnin' in my bones

I dreamed a thousand dreams I got travelin' in my soul

Tryna rock while I can rock I'm tryna roll while I can roll

They laughed at me at school and said that I always ate too fast

That's just what it got to when you'd always wound up last

I've always been the smallest in a house a seven kids

I never got my share back there no matter what I did

Now I'm off an' runnin' boys with two good simple goals

Tryna rock while I can rock I'm tryna roll while I can roll

Well I'm sailin' off for England soon I'm workin' on a boat

See this whole wide world before I'm old enough to vote

I might write home to mama but I sure won't tell it all

He grabbed his guns n' roses cap an' walked on down the hall

On your feet an' fine he said and the next damn day you're old

Tryna rock while I can rock I'm tryna roll while I can roll