From Chris Pyle@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 6 10:11:02 2023
Last night in Boston, Bob played this song. I saw Merle back when Bob was doing those baseball field shows...don't remember him doing this song. I like the lyrics, some of them fit Bob oh so well.
Footlights
Merle Haggard
I live the kinda life most men only dream of
I make my livin' writin' songs and singin' them
But I'm forty-one years old and I ain't got no place to go when it's over
So I hide my age and make the stage and
Try to kick the footlights out again
I throw my old guitar across the stage and
Then my bassman takes the ball
And the crowd goes nearly wild to see
My guitar nearly fall
After twenty years of pickin' we're still alive
And kickin' and kickin' down the wall
Tonight I'll kick the footlights out
And walk away without a curtain call
Tonight I'll kick the footlights out again
And try to hide the mood I'm really in
And put on my old Instamatic grin
Tonight I'll kick the footlights out again
I live the kinda life that most men only dream of
I make my livin' writin' songs and singin' them
But I'm forty-one years old and I ain't got no place to go when it's over
So I hide my age and make the stage and
Try to kick the footlights out again