Blackberry Smoke - Leave A Scar

Southern Rock is alive and well, playing at local venues all over the South.  Blackberry Smoke is one of those bands on the cusp of breaking out into wider recognition.  I for one hope they do, because that recognition would be well deserved, and while it's OK for a band to open for Skynyrd, it would be sweet to see a band who can write something like this have opening acts at their concerts.

Because this really captures the soul of working man's rock 'n roll.  Life is hard, and you do what you can.  You live as big as you can, and when you go out, you hope to go out as Blackberry Smoke themselves say on their web site:

Don't go out quietly, slide that casket in on two wheels and scream, "Hot damn that was fun!"

That's a prayer, if you think about it.  So let it be written, so let it be done.



Leave A Scar (Songwriters: Blackberry Smoke))

The old man was a good man he raised his children right
He taught us how to work hard and showed us how to fight
Told me about the good Lord and when to use a gun
Made me very proud of where it is that I come from

When I die put my father in the big same urn
Look down at me smiling I don't want no beating tune
All I leave behind me is a ragged old guitar
I may not change the world but I'm gonna leave a scar

Years a row nobody, the old man turned me loose
Way cross town I learned about those sad ol' country blues
Taught me how to prep my heart from trying to make it right
Told me not to ever break one alone at a time

When I die put my father in the big same urn
Look down at me smiling I don't want no beating tune
All I leave behind me is a ragged old guitar
I may not change the world but I'm gonna leave a scar

Hope you have me on your memory like a painted old tattoo
I might not make a history book but I'll burn a page or two
Yeah

When I die put my father in the big same urn
Look down at me smiling I don't want no beating tune
All I leave behind me is a ragged old guitar
I may not change the world but I'm gonna leave a scar