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Rockin Chair

from A Hard Sentence by Thinkspeak

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Unaware of it at the time I was probably influenced by Dylan's "Down into the Easy Chair" (if that's it title - there's that reference in "Bobby" so i must not have been so unaware) but I also combined two songs... you can see 3 and 5 are different than the structure of the others. It laments the sad and wondrous passing of everything (some things we WANT to pass on of course) but in a fun playful way.

lyrics

We lived our lives and it didn't take long
seems like a minute and it was gone
here we sit by the rockin chair
watdhin the by goin day

2.
there goes Bobby he's a crooked man
couldn't get older if you took his hand
he'd leave you sittin by the road way
watchin the by goin day

3.
the day slipped out from under me again
I can't seem to keep up with the time
just the other week I told myself you'd better get ready
winter's comin winter's comin
just the other day the sun came out for spring
now it's summer better get ready

4.
I remember way back behind my thumb
we experimented with Jamaican rum
I know along the way we must have had to pay
but now we've got the mornin and the by goin day

5.
long time ago when i was young years went by
quicker than a winkin eye
sittin in the stairwell wonderin where i'd be
i was there quicker than I could see

6.
we lived our lives and it didn't take long
seems like a minute and it was gone
here we sit by the rockin chair
watchin the by goin day

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from A Hard Sentence, released June 1, 2013

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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