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Life Is Sweet
M. Litton

Hold me darlin’, you call me Rhett, I’ll call you Scarlet
We’ll waltz around the gazebo as the music plays
Life is sweet, hear the rhythm and the melody
While the minstrels sing that “Ol’ Swanee”
In three-part harmony...

Life is sweet on a summer’s evenin’
Life is sweet, hear the crickets singin’
Where the river winds and lovers rendezvous
Beneath the cottonwood trees where the moon shines through
Let it shine on me...
Life is sweet, it’s a wise ol’ sayin’
Life is sweet, hear the children playin’
While the ol’ folks talk and fireflies glow
Around the front-porch steps of our family home
Sweet home...

Take me back, I’ll not complain
Take me back, I want everything to be the same

There’s a baseball game and a rodeo
Fireworks in the sky explode
There’s a carnival at the edge of town
With a Ferris Wheel and a merry-go-round
And around...
Git the rock-salt and a gunny sack
Bust the ice with the flat of the ax
Then turn the crank and start to dream
About chocolate cake and homemade ice cream
I scream...

Take me back, I’ll not complain
Take me back, I want everything to be the same
The same...

Life is sweet, oh so sweet...

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from Rootless Seed, released January 1, 2001

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The Gothic Cowboy/The Border Band Lawrence, Kansas

I'm a creekbank ghetto boy. Began my singin' near half a century ago in Canada, then hit northeast, down thru Nashville, Austin, out to Colorado and back to Kansas where I started out and will likely remain. My influences are Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, CCR and The Band, while the juices of a hundred others flavor my music, not to mention the devil himself if that's what it takes to make a song... ... more

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