Rock Back Billy-John Hiatt

[ti:Rock Back Billy] [ar:John Hiatt] [al:Stolen Moments] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rock Back Billy (Album Version) - John Hiatt [00:24.41]Get a load of that guy [00:25.68] [00:26.78]With the dew rag on [00:28.51] [00:29.60]And the cowboy tie [00:30.89] [00:32.44]Man that cat is gone [00:33.71] [00:35.31]Form Memphis to Nashville [00:36.55] [00:38.03]Then way out west [00:39.16] [00:40.89]Put that Hollywood party [00:42.02] [00:43.66]To the acid test [00:44.85] [00:46.63]Got a little bungalow [00:47.77]In the valley somewhere [00:49.56]Took a gig playin' bass [00:50.99]With Sonny and Cher [00:52.38]He took it on his chin [00:53.93]And never got it off his chest [00:55.30]He wouldn't be caught [00:56.51] [00:57.86]Dead wearin' that vest [00:58.97] [01:00.28]Not rock back Billy [01:01.69] [01:03.02]Oh rock back Billy [01:04.30] [01:09.70]He came to make a stew [01:11.38] [01:12.13]With that swamp guitar [01:13.45] [01:14.96]He kept it lonesome and blue [01:16.63] [01:17.55]Yeah in the trunk of his car [01:19.60] [01:20.72]But no one gave him a long shot [01:22.80] [01:23.55]Though he never did doubt [01:24.97] [01:26.46]What it was not [01:28.34] [01:29.04]Or what it was all about [01:31.20] [01:32.12]He got all tangled up [01:33.68]With liquor and drugs [01:35.23]Tryin' to make a racket [01:36.65]Like those English mugs [01:38.03]Till he couldn't get arrested [01:39.16]And he couldn't see straight [01:40.77]He couldn't even shine shoes [01:42.12] [01:42.75]In that Golden State [01:44.68] [01:45.44]Not rock back Billy [01:46.96] [01:48.34]Come on rock back Billy [01:49.79] [01:55.99]When you see him on the street [01:58.23] [01:59.79]Well he's no spring chicken [02:06.17] [02:07.33]But ask him how he makes ends meet [02:09.82] [02:11.23]He'll tell you "I'm still pickin'" [02:13.13] [02:14.11]Aw rock it Billy rock it [02:16.73] [02:25.61]Yeah they counted him down [02:27.11] [02:28.95]When they dropped that beat [02:30.30] [02:31.63]But that red hot sound [02:32.97] [02:33.66]They could not defeat [02:35.51] [02:37.08]It started comin' back from Boston [02:38.88] [02:40.04]From East L A [02:41.58] [02:42.90]Down in Austin Texas [02:44.41] [02:45.71]And up New York way [02:47.23] [02:48.58]And as long as there's a kid [02:50.08]In a room somewhere [02:51.35]With a beat up guitar [02:52.93]And some funny lookin' hair [02:54.28]Well it might be Billy's kid [02:55.74]You don't know [02:57.37]And all I've got to say is [03:00.69]Go cat go [03:02.06] [03:03.39]Come on rock back Billy [03:04.91] [03:06.24]Come on rock back Billy [03:07.50] [03:09.48]Rock back Billy [03:10.26] [03:36.98]Come on rock back Billy