Colin Cutler - Save Your Life and Drive (Radio Edit)

Save Your Life and Drive

I was hiking down the highway to Mobile, Alabama,
Had one good arm and a nine-pound hammer.
I took a turn up a washed-out gravel road,
Saw a little old lady just a-squatting like a toad on her porch swing;
Her thirty-something daughter rocked there beside her, drooling out the side of her mouth.
I ain't a smart man, but I could see this whole thing was heading south...right quick.
"Save your life and drive,
You better save your life and drive."

She looked me over like I was an old used car;
Said "There's work to be done, if a working man's what you are."
I said, "You can cut me open, but you still won't know just what I am, ma’am."
She said, "You might have one arm, but honey, I think you're a man."
Out in the barn, I could see her car, and her statement I couldn't deny,
And what's the harm in painting up an old barn and a couple chicken coops anyway?
"You better save your life and drive
Save your life and drive."

You ever seen a mother try to sell her daughter?
Said "Look at her, she's a pure drink of water."
She was talking with the chickens and clawing in the dust,
Said "A woman like that won't give you no fuss."
I looked at the paint peeling from the roof, said "Ma'am, it might be a sin,
But give me a hundred dollars, I can get that house painted,
Maybe get that car running again (if you know what I mean)."
"Save your life and drive,
You better save your life and drive."

The wedding day came on the first of the year;
Got the house painted and that car out of second gear.
Mama slipped me the money and she kissed her daughter goodbye
We stopped five miles away at a roadside diner, I ordered two turkeys on rye.
The boy behind the counter, he gaped at her, said she looked just like an angel of God.
I slipped out the door and said over my shoulder, "Tell him hi, and I hope he ain't mad."
"You gotta save your life and drive,
You better save your life and drive."

Twenty miles down the road, I had dust in my eye,
There was a black cloud heavy as an iron anvil hanging in the sky.
Saw a barefoot boy walking right beside of the ditch--
I stopped, cranked open my window, and yelled out, "Hey, boy, get in.
Better thank your mom and your lucky stars that I stopped, storm comin', ain't no place to hide."
He said, "My ma's the meanest ***** that ever cut a switch, you better save your life and drive.
"Save your life and drive,
You better save your life and drive."

And I left that boy right beside of the road,
Cause you don’t talk about your mama that way.


RADIO EDIT:
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