Live and Die Rock and Roll

Album: Snake Farm

Live and Die Rock and Roll

 

Mama cried and daddy burned

When I told them what I learned

An old Stones lick and a dirty groove

Let It Bleed and You Got to Move

Some of us is born to run

Out on highway 61

The Clash, Ramones and MC5

 

Nobody gets out of here alive

It’s live and die rock and roll

It ain’t something you control

A Stratocaster heart and a Hi’Watt soul

It’s live and die rock and roll

 

I heard Muddy Waters Hard Again

So I went down to the crossroads to see a friend

Broke out of jail and turned 21

Working at the House of the Rising Sun

I met a girl on a dead end street

Some dirty deeds are done dirt cheap

 

With the earth below and heaven above

My girl gave it up to a Whole Lotta Love

 

A Stratocaster heart and a Hi’Watt soul

It’s live and die rock and roll

 

Rock and roll is a Black Snake Moan

Spit and sweat on a microphone

Blood and ink down my arm and hand

And the faith to believe in a band

You know it ain’t November Rain

It’s JJ Cale’s Cocaine

 

Dem Ol’ Cosmic Blues

And Eight Miles High

And Hendrix setting his Strat on fire

It’s live and die rock and roll

It ain’t something you control

A Stratocaster heart and a Hi’Watt soul

It’s live and die rock and roll

It’s live and die rock and roll

It’s live and die rock and roll

It’s live and die rock and roll

 

 

Written by Ray Wylie Hubbard, Cody Canada, Seth James  2005

Published by Snake Farm Publishing (SESAC)