Original Artist - Do As I Say guitar chord

Do As I Say

Aaron Cain

©2001

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He fell on hard times so we took him in

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Said "it felt so good to be back again"

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He hadn't been hanging around since '72

He sure was rough around the edges

We'd find him hazing our pledges

He was an ol' fraternity man tried and true

he didn't dress with too much style

had a dirty mouth and a cigarette smile

but the lines on his face told a story or two

Eight in the morning he'd drive to the store

If he ran outta beer and he needed more

Lone Star or any other cheap one would do

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He tried to tell me how to live life

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But he didn't think it came out right

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yet the moral was as bright as the Texas sun

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between all the smoke and the beer

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his message came through loud and clear

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It was do as I say and not as I've done

He once was successful and had a wife

But she left him and ruined his life

He took to drinking every single day

He'd get drunk and go for a ride

Until he ended up with two DUIs

The state had to take his license away

He'd raise a beer to toast Janis Joplin

Contemplate words of Kris Kristofferson

And we'd talk about the music of his time

He'd always tell me I was gonna be a star

Could picture me singing my songs in a bar

said he couldn't wait til the world heard mine

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One day he left and never came back

Only left behind an empty cigarette pack

And I haven't seen the man since then

My growing up was such a long time coming

But now I've got this tune that I'm humming

This song is for Him, wherever he is

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