FIVE GALLON HEAD the cops came one night and they spoke to his mom how could a bartender let daddy drive they buried his old man on the very same day as that innocent family of five all his dad left was a mem'ry of yelling and watching mom hold ice to her lip some bottles of gin, so mom's drinkin' again and a black stetson hat, too big to fit. (chorus) and he felt so alone he had no one at all he wished he could just disappear in the wall shattered and shaken and this close to breakin' ya can't feel no smaller than that like a five gallon head in a ten gallon hat Many years later he sat at a bar sunday night, by himself, drinkin' shooters a little too drunk, a little too loud talkin' 'bout the waitress' hooters she stopped dead in her tracks, put down her tray you could've heard a jaw drop in that place she stared, she glared, her nostrils flared she threw a pitcher of beer in his face (repeat chorus) (bridge) took a good look at himself that night the whole town was talkin', he knew they were right now he's ten years sober, a good woman to love raisin' two boys and thanking the good lord above (chorus 2) that he's not all alone he's standin' up tall before you can walk you gotta learn how to crawl he's given up hateful for growin' and grateful he's no longer where he was at a five gallon head in a ten gallon hat ©2013 Bill Osofsky, BMI, floyd jane ASCAP |