Old Rock 'N Roller - The Charlie Daniels Band

Written by：C. Daniels/J. Gavin/C. Hayward/T. DiGregorio

He's just an old rock and roller playing music in a backstreet bar

Anything a little flat and he never learned to play the guitar

But he keeps on belting out them rhythm and blues

Long tall sally and blue suede shoes

He's just a key faced the fact that he's never gonna be a star

He's just an old rock and roller playing music in a backstreet bar

He had a record in the sixties it was big enough to go top ten

And though he tried and he tried he never could make it happen again

He's been living twenty years on bourbon and pride

Jerry lee went crazy and Elvis died

Then his third wife left him but he never really thought it would last

And now she ain't nothing but another little blast from the past

But sometimes late on the Saturday night when the crowd that having fun

He steps up on the mike with a gleam in his eye and once again

He's twenty one

And then it's be bop a Lula and heartbreak hotel and that'll be the day

Then the sweet bird of youth just flies away

He's an earthbound eagle that never did learn how to fly

He ain't never gonna make it but he sure did give it a try

So go dye your hair and turn the music up loud

When it's time to go at least you'll go down proud

You ain't never gonna be nothing but what you are

Just an old rock and roller playing music in a backstreet bar

Just an old rock and roller playing music in a backstreet bar