"3/4 Time"
 
I've grown tired of livin' in 3/4 time,
shackled by limits of other men's minds --
followin' people whose eyes have turned blind.
From now on my life will be mostly mine.
 
I've missed out on some things I should have enjoyed,
filled up some spaces I should have left void --
been fun for some folks I should have annoyed.
Might say I'm cuttin' my umbilical cord.
 
But I'll chart my own direction for the future,
live my life and somehow get along.
When I'm six feet under and made my last blunder,
folks can say that fool just wrote his own song.
 
 
"North Georgia Saturday Night"
 
Way up in north Georgia
under the Blue Ridge sky,
we still got enough Mother Nature
to make country folks high.
We get under the moonshine
long 'bout Saturday night,
start playing sweet country music
and folks start feeling right.
It's good times on the mountain
on a north Georgia Saturday night.
 
Jimbo plays the guitar
kinda like Johnny Be Good.
Lester gets down on that fiddle
like old C. D. should.
John Boy plays that 'lectric bass
like no one else in sight.
We start playing sweet country music
and folks start feeling right.
It's good times on the mountain
on a north Georgia Saturday night.
 
 
"Love is Perfect"
 
Don't you know, people -- we need love and kindness?
It won't take much -- just a little of you.
Make someone's storm clouds roll away
and let the Son come shining through.
 
May come a time when you have a problem.
It can get rough walkin' down life's road.
It's nice to know there's always somebody
who will be glad to help you carry your load.
 
Go on!  Show somebody you care.
Give a little bit of your love.
Show somebody you care.
Love is something this world needs more of.
Love is something we all need more of.
 
Through all the sunshine,
through all the rain,
love is a perfectly wonderful thing.
 
 
"1861"
 
They called young boys off to that war
without fully explaining what we were fighting for,
except that there was a war and we had to fight.
They told us there was a war and we had to fight.
 
'Cause the North was a-strangling the South they said.
Yet, men could be bought for $500 a head,
and the war would show everybody who was wrong and right.
They said the war would show everybody who was wrong and right.
 
So we fought at Bull Run, Antietam too,
and down at Vicksburg we lost quite a few.
Though the generals kept telling us -- Boys, we're winning this thing.
Yeah, the generals kept telling us -- Boys, we're winning this thing.
 
But, we kept dreaming about our farms
and wondering why we'd ever taken up arms
back in '61 -- What a beautiful spring.
I remember '61 was a beautiful spring.
 
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren,
and they hated him yet the more.
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren,
and they hated him yet the more.
 
Then Lincoln freed the people at Gettysburg.
General Lee surrendered.  Have you heard?
And that awful, bloody war started coming to an end.
Yeah, that awful, bloody war started coming to an end.
 
But, too many thousand who had worn blue and gray
are calling to us still from cold, cold graves
saying -- Nobody ever needs to go through that again.
They're saying -- Nobody ever needs to go through that again.
 
And, we hold these truths to be self-evident --
Do we hold these truths to be self-evident?