Road Scholar - Lee Roy Parnell

I grow up in texas on the great high plains

A silvertone guitar was all i had to my name

At seventeen i left and i never looked back

Yeah just me and my guitar and my pontiac

Well i never went to college but i got a degree

From a honky tonk university

Hey i’m a road scholar i gotta make my music

I was born to sing and play

Yeah i’m a road scholar how i love to hear the wheels whine

Rolling down that old highway

Well the roadhouse was my schoolhouse

That’s where i paid my dues

I got a master’s in rhythm and a minor in soul

And a phd in the blues

My teachers were the killer and the hound dog man

My classmates consisted of a five-piece band

Yeah my dormitory was a string of cheap hotels

But i survived it all and i’m alive and well

Although i never went to college…

Hey i’m a road scholar i gotta make my music…