I'LL GO SOMEWHERE AND SING MY SONGS AGAIN
(Tom T. Hall)


Tom T. Hall - 1980





Way out on the mountain near the sky
Hidin' from the cold realities of life
Shakin' that old road dust off my heels
I give my heart and mind a chance to feel

Then I'll go somewhere and sing my songs again
More'n likely right back to the places I have been
I appreciate my music and my friends
So I'll go somewhere and sing my songs again

A racoon stole my minnows in the night
I appreciate his need and his appetite
But unlike me he doesn't have to roam
Lord, it's true that man can't live on bread alone

So I'll go somewhere and sing my songs again
More'n likely right back to the places I have been
I appreciate my music and my friends
So I'll go somewhere and sing my songs again

Oh, it feels so good to have a simple wish
Where life and death is me and some old fish
A king sits with a cold beer in his hand
And surveys the clear blue kingdom on the sand

Then I'll go somewhere and sing my songs again
More'n likely right back to the places I have been
I appreciate my music and my friends
So I'll go somewhere and sing my songs again






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2013)