Started a Band

I turned sixteen got a brand new six-string

Haggard and Hank, Sting and Springsteen,

Peelin' the paint every chance I got.

Daddy said "You're pretty good, but it's tough out there,

Now 'Stairway To Heaven' won't get ya anywhere,

Otta cut your hair, and get a real job."

Chorus 1:

So I started a band, and we got out of dodge,

In a Dodge van with no exhaust,

Got high off the fumes, but we played our tunes,

Ain't no one gonna say I can't,

Yeah, I started a band, stared a band.

Started a band and I met a girl,

Sang my songs and rocked her world,

Goin' strong but out of the blue one day,

She said "I can't love a music man",

So I dropped my dream and sold my amp,

But I'll be damned if she didn't leave me anyway.

Chorus 2:

So I stared a band, with a couple new guys,

We played those same ol' dives.

Yeah, we never sold gold, okay, we never sold,

Ain't no one gonna say I can't,

Yeah, I started a band, started a band,

But the lead picker always played too loud,

And him and the drummer had a fallin' out,

Bass man stayed out of it and just got drunk,

I was Nashville bound, my dreams were bigger,

I knocked 'em out they just couldn't pull the trigger,

And that's Nashville speak for I stunk, as a solo man.

Chorus 3:

So I started a band, we play what we like,

On a stage that's eight feet wide,

But I got my pride, and I got my van,

I kept who I am, I started a band,

Started a band, can't get this guitar out my hand,

Yeah I started a band.