Jerry Jeff
In a house, I'd lay upstairs, And of how I'd live someday there sat, a man who had A guitar he learned to play
For my thirteenth birthday, grandma bought the Told me I learn how to play And the gift she me changed me 'Cause the is the main thing, That got me to this point today
And I was lucky, 'cause I used her To get in touch how to live And looking back I now realize, music my life
Just out of school, I had no Of what it was I'd to do I only know, the road Was the way I chose to on through
I took that guitar with me, down the lonesome And I my search for a song And somewhere in the distance, the music and the Of how I would come along
Chorus (Last different) That music saved my life, became my life
As time went by, I that I climb up on the stage and sing But when I sang, the I wrote It became a special thing
But to me were personal And the business just killed me And I withdrew inside my With the contracts and the I heavy drinking, 'Til I finally lost touch with
I guess music for money brought problems That I didn't very well Being self-taught gave me to lean on I had to look in
I took a year off and did some to clean the cobwebs out And I went to Grandma's guitar Just to hear a sound
When I look around me, I saw my loving And a home we had on a hill I discovered the had led me to the one place my heart and soul are re-filled
Music saved my life, yeah, music really my life Yes, really saved my life