I'm the One

Riley Lincoln

WPB Fla

Nov. 2012

I'm all the songs that I have heard

    I'm all the songs that I have learned

I'm all the people I have met

    I'm all the marks whose money I have spent

I'm all the women that believed

    I'm all the women I deceived

I'm all the cities I have played

    I'm all the countries I have stayed

I'm all the show lots in the rain

    I'm one of the charter members

Of the carnival "Hall of Shame"

I'm the one outside of Montgomery that night

    When Hank Williams saw the Light

I'm the one the was there when

   Levon pulled into Nazareth half dead

Looking for a bed for his head

    I'm the one standing outside Sun Records

I'm the one to hear Elvis hummin' "that's all

    right momma" as he walked in

I'm the one to hear Jerry Lee do "Whole lot

    of shaken'" as his wild life was to begin

I'm the one who heard Johnny Cash say how

    "I Walk the Line"…I believed it in my heart

And in two weeks it topped the charts

    I'm the one to see Carl Perkins

Kick up his blue suede shoes

    Two weeks later I bought my suedes of blue

I'm the one whose seen them all walk in

    I'm the one that was there

When Rock and Roll began

I'm Moon Mullican

   and I will sail my ship alone

I'm the one who brought it home