Steve Madewell: Music

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I started out to write a parody blues tune and it just kept creeping closer and closer to home.

I'm wound too tight
I can't help it none
Takes a whole lot of work
for me to have any fun
There is nothing no one is gonna do
I got those wound up too tight blues

I make a whole lotta money
or so they say,
Credit cards and the bank, they take it right away

Buying things I'll never use
I got those wound up to tight blues

I got a big ol house
with a big ol yard
And it looks real nice
cause Lord I work real hard
Doing things I hate to do I got those wound up to tight blues

Well I called on the preacher
To see if he could help me some
Cause I heard him on the TV
Say there is peace for everyone
I ask him to pray for me
And make me alright
He said send a couple hundred bucks
I would feel less uptight.

Oh I am wound too tight
Oh yes I am wound too tight
Oh Lord I'm wound too tight
Oh yes I am wound too tight
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoo
I got those wound up too tight blues

I got three or four kids
And I raised them right
Made damn sure they are all up tight
Just like me through and through
I got those wound up to tight blues

I love this country
Where every body is free
And everybody can be just like me
In this land of the red white and blue
I got those wond up too tight blues
In the land of the red blue and white
I believe we are just wound
Yes I think we are just wound
I know we're all just wound up too tight.