7 Years

Once I was 7 years old

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

Pushin' each other to the limits, we were learning quicker

By eleven smokin' herbs and drinkin' burnin' liquor

Never rich, so we were out to make that steady figure

Once I was 11 years old

My daddy told me, go get 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 writin' songs, I started writin' stories

Somethin' about that glory 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 mornin' sun, when life was lonely

Once I was 20 years old

Oh, no, no