My Petition
I just sat down to watch the game
- I just sat down to watch the game
- When I heard the doorbell ring
- I wondered
- Who in the world it could be
- Through the people all that I saw there
- Was a
- Crooked cap on curly hair
- Some kid
- Squintin' back at me
- I said if you're sellin' somethin'
- Well I ain't buyin' nothin'
- But I
- Appreciate you stoppin' by
- Said I ain't askin' for a dime
- Just a minute of your time
- An' your name
- Here on the dotted line
- Could you sign my petition
- Had a spiral notebook in his hand
- Handed me a chewed up pen
- An' I ask you
- What am I signin' up for
- I scrolled down that wrinkled page
- Saw a couple of neighbors names
- I kept readin'
- Then I sat down on the porch
- It was a letter to the president
- With a list
- That numbered one to ten
- It said make a law where daddy's don't work late
- Keep uncle joe an' those soldiers safe
- Give those kids on tv
- All they want to eat
- Put a stop to bullies on the bus
- No crime no waits no hate no d**gs
- Give a jacket and a job
- To people on the street
- I said son sounds like a world I'd like to live in
- And I signed his petition
- He thanked me for my time
- I headed back inside grabbed my beer
- An' got back to the game
- Thought by now that boy he's three doors down
- Here I am just sittin' round
- Waitin' on the world to change
- Must've blocked the whole game out
- All that I could think about was
- Make a law where daddy's don't work late
- Keep uncle joe an' those soldiers safe
- Give those kids on tv
- All they want to eat
- Put a stop to bullies on the bus
- No crime no waits no hate no d**gs
- Give a blanket and a job
- To people on the street
- An' I thought
- Man ain't that a place I'd like to live in
- And I thank God
- For that boy that's out there fixin'
- The world with his petition
Come to join my duet!
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I would love to hear your next cover
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