Robert Earl Keen
The Man Behind The Drums
CD: The Rose Hotel



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We left New York City, with nothin' but a song,
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she'll be coming' 'round the mountain when she comes.
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We wound up in Woodstock, at an old time jamboree,
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came to see the man behind the drums.||


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Levon digs the doghouse, playing in The Band,
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when he locks in to that backbeat it ain't hard to understand.
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Get your body movin', celebrate your soul,
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Levon digs the doghouse, that's sho-nuff rock and roll.
       
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Son of a plain dirt farmer, from southeast Arkansas,
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he was born in a bare ramblin' shoe.
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Up and down the highway, and all around the world,
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laying down the rhythm and the blues.


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We were hangin' from the rafters, singing every song,
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that big barn band was hot as it could be.
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Up there in the spotlight, the man behind the drums,
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was takin' all the load off for you and me.

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Yea, Levon digs the doghouse, that's sho-nuff rock and roll.