Mama loved the Bible, daddy loved the bars So both of them reliable, perhaps the way I are Got a little devil and an angel around me, lordy dee Well, okay well I admit it, the only thing I'm really good at's being me, lordy dee I'm a semi educated, honky tonkin' fool Jack Bean's sedated, rated redneck, kinda cool My hero is a country poet, who never even heard of me, lordy dee Well, okay wellI admit it, the only thing I'm really good at's being me, lordy dee Tried to be a husband, tried to play it straight In three weeks she'd changed her mind that we should procreate Tried to work a day job, I gave up my guitar And we both started bookin' me back in the music bars Well, okay well I admit it, the only thing I'm really good at's being me, lordy dee I got a bunch of serpents underneath my clothes That's where all those classy girls touched you, a ten feet pole Got a little devil and an angel around me, lordy dee Well, okay well I admit it, the only thing I'm really good at is being me, lordy dee Tried to be a husband, tried to play it straight In three weeks she'd changed her mind that we should procreate Tried to work a day job, I gave up my guitar And we both started bookin' me back in the music bars Well, okay well I admit it , the only thing I'm really good at's being me, lordy dee Well, okay I admit it, the only thing I'm really good at's being me, lordy dee Oh, lordy dee Lordy dee Lordy dee