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Artist: Earl Musick
Canonical path: /earl-musick/hell-bent-amp-happy
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Hell Bent & Happy
Read Hell Bent & Happy lyrics by Earl Musick on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Hell Bent & Happy
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Back in my younger days
I was just a kid that's what they said
I worked the night shift all day
I had a paper route and burglar tools
I was pretty dumb but I was nobody's fool
I sported ducktails and I smoked Kools
I drank my supper from a Dixie cup
Growing up was just a matter of luck
And I wished that I knew now what I knew then
I was hell bent and happy
Just sliding up hill
I should have gone to jail
For all the times I killed
I was hell bent and happy
Just spitting in the wind
And I may never come this was again
Grew up on a dead end street
My education was incomplete
I wore overall's and went bare feet
I pitched quarters and played forty-two
Word around town I was known as a dude
I picked guitar and sang the blues.
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Earl Musick performs "Hell Bent & Happy", and this lyric page sits inside the Earl Musick catalog on LyroVerse.
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