Travelin’ Soldier

What a sad state of affairs I'm in

Cause I'm trying to compete where I just don't fit in

Cause the country, if you call it that, from off the road

Ain't country just because I'm old enough to know that

That ain't country

That's a natural fact

It's full of tails of good times and happy endings

My life ain't like that

So I'll keep listening to the old songs that my Grandad used to play

Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away

The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today

So tell me, whatever happened to the country songs

Full of truth and consequences, all the things gone wrong

Someone came and changed it up, made it all a lie

I'd like to spit a little beach-nut right in that dude's eye

Cause that ain't country

That's a natural fact

It's full of tails of good times and happy endings

My life ain't like that

So I'll keep listening to the old songs that my Grandad used to play

Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away

The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today

Now listen here

We got Waylon singing songs bout a Ramblin' Man

And Junior's got a cold one in his hand

And the Possum's gettin drunk again imagine that

And Charlie Daniels playing fiddle underneath that hat

And John and June are goin' back and forth again

And David Allan Coe is singing 'bout his kin

And Haggard sings the songs that'll save your soul

And Willie sings the songs about the hearts he stole

Cause that shit's country

That's a natural fact

It's full of tails of hard times and complications

Ain't life like that?

So I'll keep listening to the old songs that my Grandad used to play

Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away

The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today

The ones that speak to me

The way I feel today