################################################################ # The following is the author's own interpretation of the song # # to be used for studying or private use only. Downloaded from # # www.TabGuitarLessons.com. FREE GUITAR SOFTWARE + LOTS MORE! # # Home of the 60 minute fretboard memory technique. You'll # # memorise ALL the notes and positions on the fretboard in 60 # # minutes or less. visit www.TabGuitarLessons.com today. # ################################################################ Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:12:39 -0700 From: Charley Connor Subject: IN RESPONCE TO UNEASY RIDER 88 THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND ME AND MY BUDDY GOT US A WILD HAIR AND FIGURED WE WANTED TO GO SOME WHERE SO WE LOADED UP MY RAGTOP CHEVROLET WE HADVERY LITTLE MONEY AND A WHOLE LOT OF SHOW AND WITH JR. BLARINā ON THE RADIO WE GOT A TANK FULL OF GAS AND WE WERE ON OUR WAY WE FIGURED WE GO DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS WE WERE BARROLIN DOWN OLEā 17 WHEN A MAN WITH A BLINKINā RED LIGHT WAS ON OUR TAIL HE SAID YOU WERE DOINā 60 IN A 45 BUT IāM GONNA LET YOU GO THIS TIME BUT IF I CATCH YA AGAIN IāM GONNA SLAP YA IN THE COUNTY JAIL WE SAID THANK YA SIR ITāS SURE BEEN NICE AND YOU AINāT GONNA HAVE TO TELL US TWICE AND WE WERE SOUTH BOUND AND DOWN WITH THE WIND BLOWINā IN OUR FACE WE KEPT ON ROLLIN AND PRETTY SOON THE RADIO WAS COOKINā OUT A HAGGARD TUNE AND WE WERE PULLINā INTO HOUSTON AND A CHECKINā OUT ALL THEM PLACES I WAS FEELINā DRY AND I SAID I THINK WE OUGHTA STOP AND GET OURSELVES A DRINK AND OLE JIM SAID YEAH BUT WE GOT TIME TO KILL WE KEPT ON ROLLINā AND I SEEN THIS SPOT WE PULLED INTO THE PARKING LOT OF THIS PLACE CALLED THE CLOUD 9 BAR AND GRILL WE WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR AND THE PLACE WAS JAMMED THE LIGHTS WERE LOW THEY HAD A PUNK ROCK BAND AND SOME ORANGE HARIED FELLOW SINGINā ĪBOUT SUICIDE I SAID JIM THIS AINāT OUR KIND A PLACE HE SAID WELL LETāS JUST HAVE ONE ROUND ANYWAY SO AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT WE WALKED ON INSIDE WENT UP TO THE BAR AND WE SET DOWN THIS FELLOW WALKED UP AND SIAD IāLL BUY THIS ROUND AND HE SET DOWN ON THE BARSTOOL NEXT TO JIM HE LOOKED LIKE A GIRL BUT HE TALKED LIKE A GUY HAD LIPSTICK ON AND MASSCAREA IN HIS EYE AND EVERYBODY IN THAT PLACE LOOKED JUST ABOUT LIKE HIM I SAID JIM THIS AINāT OUR KIND A BAR LETāS JUST GO ON OUT AND GET BACK IN THE CAR CAUSE THEREāS GONNA BE TROUBLE AINāT NO SEANCE IN TAKINā A CHANCE WE WAS GETTINGā UP GETTINGā READY TO LEAVE SOMEBODY GRABBED OLEā JIM BY THE SLEEVE IT WAS THIS GOOD LOOKINā GIRL SHE WAS ASKINā MY BUDDY TO DANCE I SAID JIM DONāT DO IT THEREāS SOMETHINā MISSINā THEREāS FELLERāS DANCINā AND FELLERāS KISSINā THEREāS A FELLER IN HIGH HEEL SHOES WEARINā PANTYHOSE HE SAID PARTNER I JUST CANāT TURN THIS DOWN YOU JUST GO OVER THERE AND HAVE ONE MORE ROUND IāLL DANCE WITH THE LADY AND WEāLL GET ON DOWN THE ROAD SO HE WALKED AWAY AND LEFT ME ALONE AND THIS FUNNY LOOKINā FELLER KEPT COMINā ON AND HE WAS MAKINā ME MAD AT SOME OF THE THINGS HE SAID WELL THEN HE PUT HIS HAND ON MY KNEE I SAID IF YOU DONāT GET YOUR PAW OFF ME IāM GONNA LOCATE YOUR NOSE AROUND ON THE SIDE OF YOUR HEAD HE SAID I LOVE IT WHEN YA GET THAT FIRE IN YOUR EYE I SAID WELL PARTNER TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE AND I UNLOADED ON HIM HE WENT OUT LIKE A LIGHT EVERYBODY IN THAT PLACE MUST A BEEN HIS FRIEND THEY ALL HEADED FOR ME I SAID THIS IS THE END BUT WHERE I COME FROM WE DONāT GIVE UP WITHOUT A FIGHT THEY WERE SCREAMINā AND YELLIN AND SCRACTINā AND CLAWINā I WAS PUNCINā AND HITTINā AND KICKINā AND PAWINā I WAS HOLDIN MY OWN CAUSE IāVE BEEN IN A SCRAP OR TWO OLE JIM COME RUNNINā UP OUTTA THE BLUE AND THAT GAL HE WAS WITH CAME RUNNINā UP TO AND PROCEEDED TO BEAT ON ME WITH A HIGH HEEL SHOE I GRABBED HER BY THE HAIR IT COME OFF IN MY HAND AND BEAUTIFUL GIRL WAS JUST A BEAUTIFUL MAN AN OLE JIM JUST GOT SICK RIGHT THERE ON THE FLOOR HE DROPPED THAT DUDE LIKE A SHOT FROM A GUN SMEARED HIS LIPSTICK MADE HIS MAKE UP RUN AND ME AN OLE JIM STARTED FIGHTINā OUR WAY TO THE DOOR MAN WE LIT OUT A THERE IN THAT CHEVROLET AND I PUT HER ON THE FLOOR AND SHE STAYED THAT WAY WE WAS GOINā DOWN THE HIGHWAY DOINā ĪBOUT A HUNDERED AND TEN WE WAS HEADED FOR HOME AND WE WAS GETTINGā NEAR IT THEN A RED LIGHT CAME ON IN THE REARVIEW MIRROW AND THAT SAME BLAMED COP WAS PULLINā US OVER AGAIN WELL IāM SETTINā HERE IN THIS COUNTY JAIL I HAD TO CALL MY DADDY TO GO OUR BAIL BUT I LEARNED ME A LESSON THAT I NEVER WILL FORGET AGAIN I DONE GIVE UP DRINKINā IāVE GIVE UP BARS AND RUNNINā ROUND THE COUNTRY IN SOUPED UP CARS GOINā BACK TO WHERE THE WOMEN ARE WOMEN AND THE MEN ARE MEN