From a Rocky Start(To a Solid Finish)

[couchgrouch]

for up-tempoFrom a Rocky Start (To a Solid Finish)Well, she used a shot-up cowhide for a checkered flagit was a two mile race to Farmer Tom's bootleg shackwhen she waved that flag my old heap stalled upon the linetill I kicked the dash with those steel-toed boots o' minewell, my rebuilt engine strained...my gears they nearly strippedbut with a Foster's 'tween my legs I won that Ford's pink slipmy Baywatch sticker peeled off when my bumper got bentbut I didn't spill my beer so I figgered I wentfrom a rocky start to a solid finishfrom a shaky start to a real fair shakeso when it's down to the boneand the going looks hardbuddy, if you got the stonesyou'll go from a rocky startto a solid finishsaw that sheriff roll up so I kicked my Chevy's dashright around the still shack I heard that lawman crashwell, I whipped a 180 on that two-lane blacktopwhen I pulled that sheriff free that poor trapped copwent from a rocky start to a solid finishfrom a shaky start to a real fair shakeso when it's down to the boneand the going looks hardbuddy, if you got the stonesyou'll go from a rocky startto a solid finishthought my jig was up I was bound for cuffsand a guilty day in courtso I shook my head when that sheriff said"kid, we need you on the force"but if I was gonna chase draggers and outlaws runnin' liquorI hadda rig my new ride to fly even quickermy first night I saw a bootlegger smokin' round the bendso I kicked my cruiser's dash and off I wentfrom a rocky start to a solid finishfrom a shaky start to a real fair shakeso when it's down to the boneand the going looks hardbuddy, if you got the stonesyou'll go from a rocky startto a solid finish(c)2006 Robert George