From the recording Did They Die In Vain

Lyrics

VERSE
Eight score ago there lived a man named Cooter Brown
In a little house just outside the edge of a town
Where north became south and south became north
With the Civil War a-comin,’ he was sidin’ back and forth

VERSE
So one day he decided that the best thing he could do
Was to just stay drunk ’til all the fightin’ was through
So he drank everything that was not nailed down
And being drunk came to be the same as sayin’ Cooter Brown

PRE-CHORUS
Now bad times may be comin’ again
And I’m thinkin’ Cooter Brown just may have been right

CHORUS
There’s lots of us now don’t know what to think
About whether law and order might just break down
So in lieu of thinkin,’ we might just take to drink
Become a modern-day Cooter Brown

RIDE

VERSE
Since he was always drunk, he never went to war
Both sides decided Cooter Brown they would ignore
At the end, he could not go back to life before
And when his house caught fire, he became no more

Repeat CHORUS

RIDE

BRIDGE
Now I don’t think I want to drink so much
That my friends would say he’s drunk as Cooter Brown

Repeat CHORUS

TAG
Yes, I’m thinkin’ ’bout drinkin’ like a modern-day Cooter Brown

Words & Music by Don Tomlinson
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Mood: political
Key: Am / BPM: 90 / Length: 3:42
ISRC: QZ37R2000069
BMI: 47915690
ISWC: T3017952846