32 count Intro
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I turned sixteen got a brand new six-string
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Haggard and Hank, Sting and Springsteen,
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Peelin' the paint every chance I got.
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Daddy said "You're pretty good, but it's tough out there,
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Now 'Stairway To Heaven' won't get ya anywhere,
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Otta cut your hair, and get a real job."
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Chorus 1:
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So I started a band, and we got out of dodge,
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In a Dodge van with no exhaust,
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Got high off the fumes, but we played our tunes,
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Ain't no one gonna say I can't,
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Yeah, I started a band, stared a band.
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Started a band and I met a girl,
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Sang my songs and rocked her world,
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Goin' strong but out of the blue one day,
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She said "I can't love a music man",
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So I dropped my dream and sold my amp,
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But I'll be damned if she didn't leave me anyway.
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Chorus 2:
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So I stared a band, with a couple new guys,
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We played those same ol' dives.
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Yeah, we never sold gold, okay, we never sold,
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Ain't no one gonna say I can't,
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Yeah, I started a band, started a band,
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But the lead picker always played too loud,
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And him and the drummer had a fallin' out,
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Bass man stayed out of it and just got drunk,
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I was Nashville bound, my dreams were bigger,
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I knocked 'em out they just couldn't pull the trigger,
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And that's Nashville speak for I stunk, as a solo man.
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Chorus 3:
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So I started a band, we play what we like,
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On a stage that's eight feet wide,
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But I got my pride, and I got my van,
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I kept who I am, I started a band,
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Started a band, can't get this guitar out my hand,
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Yeah I started a band.
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Started A Band
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| Bobby Pinson |
