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  • Once I was seven years old

  • My momma told me go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely

  • once I was 7 years old

  • It was a big big world. But we thought we were bigger

  • Pushing each other to the limits we were learning quicker

  • By eleven smoking herb and drinking burning liquor

  • Never rich so we were out to make that steady figure. Once I was 11 years old

  • My daddy told me go make yourself a wife or you'll be lonely

  • Once I was 11 years old

  • I always had that dream like my daddy before me, so I started writing songs I started writing stories.

  • Something about that glory just always seemed to bore me

  • Cause only those I really love will ever really know me

  • Once I was 20 years old my story got told

  • Before the morning sun when life was lonely

  • Once I was 20 years old

  • I only see my goals I don't believe in failure

  • Cause I know the smallest voices they can make it major

  • I got my boys with me, at least those in favor

  • And if we don't meet before I leave I hope I see you later.

  • Once I was twenty years old, my story got told, I was worrying about everything I saw before me.

  • Once I was twenty years old.

  • Soon we'll be thirty years old.

  • Our songs have been sold, we've travelled around the world and we're still roaming.

  • Soon we'll be thirty years old...

  • I'm still learning about life

  • My woman brought children for me

  • so I can sing them all my songs and I can tell them stories.

  • Most of my boys are with me, some are still out seeking glory.

  • And some I had to leave behind, my brother I'm still sorry.

  • Soon I'll be sixty years old

  • My daddy got sixty one, remember life and then your life becomes a better one.

  • I made a man so happy when I wrote a letter once,

  • I hope my children come and visit once or twice a month.

  • Soon I'll be sixty years old, will I think the world is colder? Will I have a lot of children who can warm me?

  • Soon I'll be sixty years old.

  • Soon I'll be sixty years old, will I think the world is colder? Will I have a lot of children who can warm me?

  • Soon I'll be sixty years old.

  • Once I was seven years old.

  • My mumma told me go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely.

  • Once I was seven years old.

  • I don't need anything to get me through the night except the beat that's in my heart

  • Yeah, it's keeping me alive.

  • And I don't need anything to make me satisfied.

  • Cause the music does me good and it get's me every time.

  • My youth, my youth is yours. A truth so loud you can't ignore.

  • My youth, my youth, my youth, my youth is yours.

  • My youth is yours

Once I was seven years old

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