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Don’t quit your day job – Oct 10 2022 - music & lyrics dslocumb

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Wrote my first song at 59 cause I was feeling blue.

Now I write songs most every day, it’s all I wanna do

C
So if they holler out don’t quit your day job, my mama did not raise no fool,

And if they holler out don’t quit your day job I just tell them don’t worry darlin, I wasn’t planning to

V
I like em short and sweet myself, I ain’t trying to write no book.

They’re just these little chapters of the journey that I took.

C
And though I can’t deny that I am older, and I have been around a block or two

If they holler out don’t quit your day job, I will tell them don’t worry darlin’, I wasn’t planning to.

B1
I love my day job, it’s really cool.

Bought me cars and fine guitars summers by the swimming pool.

Gives me the freedom to do what I want to, so if they holler don’t quit your day job, I say I
wasn’t planning to

I bathe in drinking water, I eat most every day, I got 2 furry children depending on my pay.

C
And though I know I’ll never win a Grammy, that’s really not what I was tryn to do

So if they holler out don’t quit your day job, I will tell them, don’t worry darlin’, I wasn’t planning to

V
See I fell in with some troubadours who shared some wisdom true

A little tip from them to me that I will share with you

B2
Don’t write your songs for money, don’t try to be a star

Songs are not what make us rich, our songs are who we are

V
So if like me you’re happy with your day job, and still somehow you write a song or two

If they holler out don’t quit your day job, honey you can tell them

Don’t worry darlin’, I wasn’t planning to

Why thank you darlin’, I wasn’t planning to