River Life - The Lacs

Give a little more throttle, plane it out nice

Watch out for stumps, left means right

Drove my daddy 'round seven bush hooks

Can’t learn about that in them old textbooks

Me and my buddies used to skip school

And jump in that boat and ride to half moon

Tried to be smooth 'til the plug popped out

Sunk daddy’s boat and just about drowned

Daddy came home and found me outside

Beat me with a piece of electrical wire

Years went by, he bought a new boat

I said daddy can I drive, he said nope

You got a long ways to go

Before you know what makes that river flow

Boy, it’s gonna take a lot of time a million miles

Just you and that old Jon boat

But, if you learn to take sweet time

And realize the fish won’t always bite

Son, there’s so much life waitin' for you in that river

Livin' that river life

I was raised up right, on the Altamaha

Some of the best cat fishin' I ever saw

I still remember runnin' ol' trout lines

And checkin' them out before supper time

Ain’t nothin' in the world like riverbank campin'

Fishin' all day just to see who’s champion

Cheese grits and a little Bud Light

When the sun goes down we’ll have a big fish fry

Get the grease hot while the fish are soakin'

And don’t take them up 'til they all are floatin'

Boy you gotta love this ol' river life

A poor man’s beach and a country boy’s paradise

You got a long ways to go

Before you know what makes that river flow

Boy, it’s gonna take a lot of time a million miles

Just you and that old Jon boat

But, if you learn to take sweet time

And realize the fish won’t always bite

Son, there’s so much life waitin' for you in that river

Livin' that river life

Drive on in, by the brim bed

Put your cricket on and let him run with it 'til the hook’s set

A good mess 'bout a five gallon bucket

If you can’t catch that man it ain’t gonna cut it

Gotta go ahead and gut 'em when you get to the bank

Hit the cooker with the flame when you lit the propane

Some damn good eatin' when you do it how it’s done

Hell a bad day’s fish, still a good day’s fun

Damn right I was raised up like that

Ain’t nothin' but a redneck river rat

Still laugh when I think back to daddy sayin'

«Boy you didn’t do too bad»

You got a long ways to go

Before you know what makes that river flow

Boy, it’s gonna take a lot of time a million miles

Just you and that old Jon boat

But, if you learn to take sweet time

And realize the fish won’t always bite

Son, there’s so much life waitin' for you in that river

Livin' that river life

You got a long ways to go

Before you know what makes that river flow

Boy, it’s gonna take a lot of time a million miles

Just you and that old Jon boat

But, if you learn to take sweet time

And realize the fish won’t always bite

Son, there’s so much life waitin' for you in that river

Livin' that river life