Jerry Jeff Walker - Very Short Time lyrics

Keith Sykes

Chorus:

It's easy to see that we've just a very short time

So why don't we just go to the hill and climb

We'll go up just as high as John T. Booker got low

Yeah, singin' the songs that don't rhyme

Carryin' those pennies that do shine

Laughin' at the minutes that fall behind, in a very short time

Yeah, a tadpole's cuter than a topwater ever could be

And I betcha neither one ever had a lifeguard like me

Ain't nobody drowned since I got here, I been lookin' after tadpoles

Watchin' their legs that will grow, wonderin' where they're gonna go

In a very short time

Well, it's easy to see that, we've just a very short time

Yeah, nobody thinks about it until it's very far behind

Then they got to know where every second has gone

They keep singin' them songs that do rhyme

Carryin' those pennies that refuse to shine

Cryin' for the minutes that fell behind in a very short time

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