Downtown Vcu - Tim Barry

She asked me to dance and then she paused

She was a neighborhood local at her local bar

With shoulder length brown hair and an accent I found fairly rare

One part country one part urban thug total fox

I was out of my element

New to the neighborhood and clearly lacking friends

Just adding to the mess of white ball caps and red keg cups

Dropping home values and raising rent

After the pause things became confusing

She asked «Are you a real man or a college student?»

I did not know what to say I’d started school that very day

Which is nothing but a big business I suppose

She turned and walked away without a second thought

I should have listened to my dad when he said «Work with your hands not your

head

And your billfold will stay full and you won’t be paying out debt»

So men the purpose of this song

Is to go ahead and pass my father’s wisdom on

Go on and callous up those hands learn some knots and turn a wrench

Cause in four years there won’t be any jobs left anyway

If I’d taken my old man’s advice

I might be laid up in the bed beside that fox tonight

Instead my mouth tastes like jello shooters and I’m lurking her on this darn

computer

Man that’s all I got good night