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Get a Little Slower

from The Country Side of Bill White by Bill White

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Chorus: repeat between each verse

When you get older
You get a little slower
If you get much slower
You don't get much older

Police have been chasing me
But I've been keeping hid
By the time they catch me
They'll forget everything I did

You can sing your song
You can dance your dance
but don't expect the cops to understand
To them you're just a funny little man

You never shut your mouth
Until you died in a hotel bed
I never realized how pretty you were
Until I saw you lying dead

I thought there was a limit
On the years a man can run
But one thing the law never forgets
Is an outlaw with a gun

They cornered me on Second Street
Just a little Southeast of Main
Before I could count to ten
I was already slain

I woke up in the graveyard
Didn't know what to do
So I read the names on every grave
Til I found the one that belonged to you

Now I been riding the midnight train
For three days straight
The porter said I missed my stop
Now I'm back at the boarding gate.

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from The Country Side of Bill White, released October 11, 2017

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