But I Was Cool-Oscar Brown, Jr./Jr.

[ti:But I Was Cool] [ar:Oscar Brown Jr.] [al:The Ladiesman: Music for the Bachelor...& His Lady] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]But I Was Cool - Oscar Brown, Jr./Jr. [00:14.15]I always live by the, golden rule [00:16.96] [00:18.66]Whatever happens, ha, don't blow your cool [00:21.78] [00:24.05]You gotta have nerves of steel [00:26.12] [00:27.94]And never show folks how you, honestly feel [00:31.61] [00:34.04]I lived all my life this way, ha [00:35.98] [00:38.49]For example, take yesterday [00:39.76] [00:43.52]I breeze home happy bringin' her my pay [00:47.15] [00:48.66]Her note read, so long savvy, I haven't gone away [00:52.23] [00:54.37]An' I threw myself down across our empty bed [00:57.52] [00:59.33]An' this is what I said [01:01.08] [01:04.83]Ooo shhhhiiiii ooow ooow ooow [01:08.78] [01:17.44]What? Oh what are you gonna do with me? [01:23.96]Ooo wow uh [01:24.78]But I was cool [01:25.78] [01:31.31]So I, one for the roaded, at a all night bar [01:38.98] [01:39.80]I wound up so loaded, I tore up my car [01:44.48] [01:46.19]The judge threw the book at me [01:48.31] [01:49.14]An' when I read, the sentence there, I said [01:53.28] [01:56.78]Oow! Please oooow ooow, [01:59.03] [02:01.91]Please I got to know, I got to know [02:06.94] [02:10.51]What? what went wrong? [02:12.91] [02:14.35]I don't underst, I oh a [02:15.60]But I was cool [02:16.43] [02:17.67]So I said she's the only one, that I have to pay [02:31.66] [02:32.48]And I found her an' pulled my gun, an' fired point blank [02:37.18] [02:38.54]The shot whistled right past that woman's head [02:42.01] [02:42.96]An' I killed my hound dog, dead [02:45.83] [02:48.90]Oooooow, ruff ruff, rrr, rrr, rrr, rur, rur, rur [02:53.24] [02:59.82]As they carried me away [03:01.71] [03:03.71]I was overheard to say [03:04.52]Be cool, be cool, stay cool, be cool