Write Me a Ballad
High on a hill, deep in a sea,
where it is I fall, just bury me.
Raise no stone to mark my spot
write me a ballad so I'll not be forgot.
Say I was a scallywag.
Say I was a brute.
Say I was good lookin'
in my birthday suit.
Say I loved the women,
say they loved me back.
Say my eyes were blue
and my hair was black.
Say I didn't live this long,
say I died a youth.
Write for me a ballad
it doesn't have to be the truth.
Make my ballad a joyful song
so they'll sing of me for ages long.
Remember me; name or face
write me a ballad in either case.
Say I drove the husbands
and the preachers mad.
Say I drank up all the beer,
before a drop went bad.
Say the law could not catch me,
say I ran too fast.
Say I kissed the ladies,
before I made my dash.
Say I was a rounder
and I was forever on the sly.
Write a ballad about me,
even if it is a lie.
Put my ballad to a tune
sing it from July to June.
Sing it to every drunk and bum
too drunk to sing they can only hum.
Don't say I was a gentleman.
Don't say I loved my wife..
Don't say I helped my neighbors,
almost all my life.
Don't let them know how hard I work,.
don't let them know I cry.
Don't let them know I love the Lord
until the day I die.
Don't say I went to church
or I had a heart of gold.
Don't write a ballad about me,
the truth is better told.
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