[Verse 1] It aint easy puttin up with A road dog with a cup with A little Jack in it You talk about the backseat I dont know, dont ask me How she sat in it [PreChorus] She carried my burdens and paid my bail Put a Tennessee breeze in my Carolina sail And set me free [Chorus] I dont pray much anymore For this old troubadours Happiness, wishes, wants and needs End of my ropes, hopes and dreams Spend my livin giving thanks For the ships I never sank Every big, every little in the every day things The notes and the words and the songs I sing To the ones, doing life with me [Verse 2] Coulda easily said goodbye to This runaway train youre tied to I know I dont get it Baby, how you roll with it [PreChorus] The fists and the fights and the scars of the battle The ups and the downs of the judges gavel Howd you wind up in my unravel? [Chorus] I dont pray much anymore For this old troubadours Happiness, wishes, wants and needs End of my ropes, hopes and dreams Spend my livin giving thanks For the ships I never sank Every big, every little in the every day things The notes and the words and the songs I sing To the ones, doing life with me [Bridge] Youre my faith in the grace Every sunrise brings Set me free [Chorus] I dont pray much anymore For this old troubadours Happiness, wishes, wants and needs End of my ropes, hopes and dreams Spend my livin giving thanks For the ships I never sank Youre my faith in the grace every sunrise brings Every big, every little in the every day things The notes and the words and the songs I sing To the ones, doing life with me
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