(Gavin Lakin)
At the kitchen
table
I must’ve been five years and change
You helped me with my shoelaces
They’d come undone like they do at that age
I was feeling sad ‘bout something
Someone had called me at school
You hugged me and held me and told me
That those same things had happened to you
AND IT’S MY
TURN, MY TURN NOW
YOU GOT ME THROUGH THE HARDEST YEARS SOMEHOW
AND NOW I’VE LEARNED LIFE’S COME BACK AROUND
SO IT’S MY TURN, MY TURN NOW
Now I watch you
in an easy chair
By the window in the afternoon
With all of your pictures of people
You don’t remember displayed in your room
I give you the news from home
I give you relief from your pain
What I wouldn’t give to hear you
Call me by my name
AND IT’S MY
TURN, MY TURN NOW
YOU GOT ME THROUGH THE HARDEST YEARS SOMEHOW
AND NOW I’VE LEARNED LIFE’S COME BACK AROUND
SO IT’S MY TURN, MY TURN NOW
Time and love
came easy for you
While my world got in my way
OH IT’S MY
TURN, MY TURN NOW
I’LL
GET YOU THROUGH THE HARDEST YEARS SOMEHOW
AND NOW I’VE LEARNED LIFE’S COME BACK AROUND
SO IT’S MY TURN, MY TURN NOW
Now I watch you
in an easy chair
By the window in the afternoon
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and Then Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved
(Gavin
Lakin/Howard Lakin)
Her
eyes are a Beale Street blue
She has charm and hair like heaven
And I know she’ll be there
Twenty years have come and gone
Now I’m walkin’ in that school gym
Where rhythm fills the air
Got my nametag,
got my beer
She is the only reason I am here
THAT GIRL IN THE
YEARBOOK
BOUT TIME WE HAD A DANCE
THAT GIRL IN THE YEARBOOK
WITH A RING ON HER LEFT HAND
I walk by Jen,
what a smile
Barb’s still shy and Meg’s still lookin’
Man, I dated all three
Kate became a beauty queen
While waitin’ tables in Abilene
They were all wrong for me
There
she is standin’ in the dark
I’m gonna ask her now, ‘cause I’ve come this far
THAT GIRL IN THE
YEARBOOK
BOUT TIME WE HAD A DANCE
THAT GIRL IN THE YEARBOOK
WITH A RING ON HER LEFT HAND
My friends all
warned me
I shouldn’t marry young
But now I’m standin’ here
With this woman that I love
THAT GIRL IN THE
YEARBOOK
THAT GIRL IN THE YEARBOOK
THAT GIRL IN THE
YEARBOOK
WE’RE GONNA HAVE THIS DANCE
THAT GIRL IN THE YEARBOOK
THAT’S MY RING ON HER HAND
Copyright 2004 Gavin
Lakin/Every Now and Then Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved
(Gavin Lakin)
An open thermos at his side
Coffee in his weathered
hands
Underneath a hardhat
He surveys the unforgiving land
Got a mountain of earth
That’s gotta be moved from there to here
Like a thousand days before this one
He puts the Bobcat into gear
HE LIVES LIFE AT
THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF A HEAVY LOAD
A LABOR OF LOVE AND THAT’S ENOUGH FOR HIM TO HOLD
HIS LIFE AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
A photograph
taped to the dash
Takes him to that time and place
A time of home, a time of her
And two boys they were blessed to raise
He told her of his dream
Of a business that he’d someday run
But times were much more simple then
You had a job, you got it done
HE LIVES LIFE AT
THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF A HEAVY LOAD
A LABOR OF LOVE AND THAT’S ENOUGH FOR HIM TO HOLD
HIS LIFE AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
He gets a call
from his oldest son
Who runs a business down in Prairie View
He hears the words and holds them close:
Dad, I’m where I am because of you and your…..
LIFE AT THE SIDE
OF THE ROAD
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OF A HEAVY LOAD
A LABOR OF LOVE AND THAT’S ENOUGH FOR YOU TO HOLD
A SOURCE OF PRIDE
YOUR LIFE AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.”
AT THE SIDE OF
THE ROAD
AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
Copyright 2004 Gavin
Lakin/Every Now and Then Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved
