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Happy As A Man

from Gold From Rust by Birdie Fenn Cent

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Happy as a Man~Well everywhere I go, seems I’ve always been around/I made a name for myself and I’ll never live it down/No one wants me here, but they won’t let me out/Won’t look me in the eyes, I️ guess I know what it’s about/Well everyone’s got their mind made up/I’ll never be anything but torn up in this town/Can’t even find a home on the wages I️ get paid/For all the trouble it took, well that’s all they ever gave/When you’ve got nothing in your hands, but wishes and far-off plans/They’ll say you should've found yourself a bright and sturdy lad/Instead your lookin’ real rundown mama, you’re lookin’ bad// Chorus: If I️ had a place that I️ could live, a place to lay my head/In a place that I️ could stand, somewhere I’d never been/If I️ had the sun on my face and I️ had money in my hand/ I’d be happy as an oyster /I’d be happy as a man//I’m a prude if I️ don’t and I’m a whore if I️ do/Took me a while, but I️ learned a thing or two/If you’re a little woman with nothin’, it don’t matter who wears the shoes/You can work all day and night and you can pay your poor man’s dues/But they’ll never think nothin’, but a woman of you//Chorus//Well I’d walk right in there and I’d sit right down/Start shouting orders for a stiff and sturdy round/And I’d tell ‘em all to bury it, deep down in the ground, where I cannot hear a single sound/Cause I️ don’t need their thoughts, I️ don’t need their dirty looks/Or their sympathetic nods, their self-indulgent hooks/I’m doin’ fine, in my skin/I’m getting good, not fitting in/I’m getting by, and I’m throwin’ it all to hell//Chorus//

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from Gold From Rust, released November 18, 2018
Birdie Fenn Cent - Gold From Rust (debut album)
Good And Gone Records
Words & Music by Birdie Fenn Cent
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jacob Crabtree in Portland, OR

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