Name: Coffin Shoes
Duration: P00H03M19S
Description: I wrote this song after my dad had some serious health problems and I had to go home to visit and help mom with whatever had to be done. He made it through.

Coffin Shoes

from Previously Loved by Secondhand Sunday

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I wrote this song after my dad had some serious health problems and I had to go home to visit and help mom with whatever had to be done. He made it through.

lyrics

Coffin Shoes © Brian Straub 5/9-10/09

Verse 1

If I can’t walk, if I can’t talk
If I can’t read, if I can’t feed
If I start to lose my dignity
I’ll thank the lord to set me free

Chorus

Take me out back in my coffin shoes
Bring your old gun and blow away my blues
Don’t you strap me down to no bed
Sit me up on the horse with the broken leg

Verse 2
Ain’t gonna bow no way no how
Ain’t gonna drool or be a mumbling fool
I ain’t gonna lose my dignity
Or I’ll thank the lord to set me free

Chorus

Verse 3
If I can’t see you or tie my shoe
If I crap my pants or I can’t dance
If I can’t have my dignity
I’ll thank the lord to set me free

Chorus

Verse 4
When I can’t think or I start to shrink
With tubes in my nose it’s time I suppose
When I have no more dignity
I’ll thank the lord to set me free

Chorus X2 – repeat last line three times end on instrumental intro

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from Previously Loved, released November 5, 2009
Brian Straub - guitar, vocals
Tom Humphreys - mandolin, backing vocals
Ed Hodge - bass, backing vocals

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Braintwang Seattle, Washington

From Baltimore to Seattle, I've been writing songs for over 30 years and have built up a body of work. My two previous bands, Armadillo Borealis and Secondhand Sunday, performed and recorded some of my songs that are represented here. This year (2016), I started Dog House Prayers and began documenting more of my songs through home recording. ... more

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