1695 – Lynyrd Skynyrd – All I can do is write about it (1976)

 

Escrita por Allen Collins e Ronnie Van Zant, foi gravada em novembro de 1975, no Capricorn Studios, em Maicon, Georgia. Foi lançada no disco Gimme back my bullets, o quarto disco da banda, em 2 de fevereiro de 1976. Foi produzida por Tom Dowd. Ronnie Van Zant cantou, Gary Rossington tocou gitarra, Allen Collins tocou guitarra, Leon Wilkeson tocou baixo e fez backing vocals, Artimus Pyle tocou bateria e percussão e Billy Powell tocou teclado e Barry Lee Harwood tocou dobro e bandolim.

A letra:

Well this life that I live took me everywhere
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
Well it's kind of like the sayin
That you heard so many times
Well there just ain't no place like home

Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngin'
Or fish in a river swimmin' free
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee

And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
'Cause if I can seen the concrete a slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Like to see a mountain stream a flowin'
Do ya like to see a youngin' with his dog
Did ya ever stop and think about
Well the air your breathin'
Well ya better listen to my song

And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
'Cause when I can see the concrete a slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

I'm not tryin' to put down no big city
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well you can take a boy out of ole' Dixieland, Lord
But you'll never take ole' Dixie from a boy

And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
'Cause when I can see the concrete a slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

If I can see the concrete a slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

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