Better Off Red

i'd be better off red

if all the things i've learned would just fall out of my head

'cause a blade of bluegrass left a scar on my neck and it ain't quit hurtin' yet

i'd be better off red

i want ten little acres instead of the world

i'd be a homemaker instead of the girl who had

to make it out of her nowhere town

just to make her mama proud

see, my daddy's not well-read

he don't give a damn about these things in my head

he's got a Chevy, front porch and a TV set

he ain't hurtin' yet

i'd be better off red

i'd want the bank of a river instead of the sea

i'd be a schoolteacher instead of the freak

who had to run away from the only place

where everybody knew my name

'cause the world ain't got no front porch swing

the city ain't got no fresh green beans

i ain't found one finer thing, mama

i'd be better off red

if all the things i've learned would just fall out of my head

'cause a blade of bluegrass left a scar on my neck

it ain't quit hurtin' yet

i'd be better off red