Jerry Jeff Walker – Singin The Dinosaur Blues (Guitar)

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Me and my friends are getting long in the tooth

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After three or four decades of seeking the truth

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Trying to recover from misspent youth

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And gradually giving in to knowledge

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I know a picker who moved to Nepal

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And another buddy's got a little shop in a mall

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Some of my brothers ain't breathing at all

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And others have given up the privilege

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But I'm still beating on my old guitar

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Singing my songs in a smoky old bar

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Hitching my wagon to a shooting star

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And hoping that star don't fall

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I'll keep picking as long as I can

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But I don't want to die just a honky-tonk man

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I'm just a buffalo singing the dinosaur blues

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I was out last night, just me and a partner

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Ain't nothing but a fool would drink that hard

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You wind up sleeping in your buddy's front yard

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And you wonder what to tell the little woman

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Me and the band's up all night long

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We was passing the pipe and banging the gong

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Trying to remember one of Van Zandt's songs

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Something about Mudd and Gold a-gamblin'

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But I'm still walking down the lost highway

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Doing what it takes to make my way

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Knowing that I got a piper to pay

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And hoping that I like the song

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Maybe it'll be a ditty I know

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I got people to see and places to go

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Just an old buffalo singing the dinosaur blues

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I've been a lucky man all of my life

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I got two great kids and a wonderful wife

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Got a rosewood guitar and a very sharp knife

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And I got a handy little knack for rhymin'

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I been blessed with a voice that can sing

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And a faith in the future and what it may bring

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And change is the very most natural of things

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And life is mostly attitude and timing

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One of these days, well, I'll disappear

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You'll look around and I won't be here

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Don't worry, buddy, there's nothing to fear

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I'm just going where the rivers flow

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You can find me in a rubbery boat

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Down in Mexico you can send me a note

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Care of a old buffalo singing the dinosaur

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I've played Buffalo, I recall Dinah Shore

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I'm just a buffalo singing the dinosaur blues