Nothing But A Breeze

Jesse Winchester
Album : Live At The Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, May 26, 1977

Winchester
Life is much too short for some folks
For other folks it just drags on
Some folks like the taste of smokey whiskey
Others figure tea is too strong.
Well, I'm the type of guy who wants to right down the middle
I don't like all this bouncing back and forth
Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie
And my head in the cool blue North.
It ain't nothing but a breeze in a small suburban garden
Not a single neighbor knows our name
I know the woman wishes we would move somewhere
Where the houses aren't all the same.
Jesse, I wish you would take me where the grass is greener
I really couldn't say where it may be
Oh, some place high on a mountain top
Or down by the deep blue sea.
And there we'll do just as we please
It ain't nothing but a breeze.
One day I'll be old gray grandpa
All the pretty girls will call me "Sir"
Now, where they're asking me how things are
Soon they'll ask me how things were.
Well, I don't mind being an old gray grandpa
If you'll be my gray grandma
But I suggest we go have our milk and cookies
In the shade of the old paw-paw.
There we'll do just as we please
It ain't nothing but a breeze.
Life is much too short for some folks
For other folks it just drags on
Some folks like the taste of smokey whiskey
Others figure tea is too strong.
Well, I'm the type of guy who wants to right down the middle
I don't like all this bouncing back and forth
Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie
And my head in the cool blue North.
Oh me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie
And my head in the cool blue North, yeah, yeah.