WHO CARES AS LONG AS I GET MINE?
Written: Electronics Class, TVI, Albuquerque NM, 1973
One boring day at a vocational school Knees wrote the words to two songs, then went home at noon and wrote the music and recorded them. Death on the Horizon was the R&R song and this was the C&W tune. The words just seemed to write themselves and Knees was as surprised as anyone when this song turned out to be the world’s first bi-sexual country & western song.
I’m drivin to a pickin job
Bout seventy miles from my home town
An I got my country station blarin
Listenin to the latest sounds
With forty miles down an thirty to go
An country words a-spinnin in my mind
My man my woman my wife, my life!
Sounds like someone’s in a bind.
Now a little girl is singin about keepin her man
An warnin her friends to stay away
Or a man is moanin in a mournful voice
About how somebody’s gonna hafta pay
You’d think everybody owned someone else
But then only one at a time
My man my woman my wife, my life!
Who cares as long as I get mine?
I’m a man who loves the women,
An my wife sure loves the men
Maybe just the other way around,
Somethin different now an then.
An you know when I find me a woman
My wife usually finds her a man
An if we happen to be together
We lend each other a hand, a hand, a hand.
So here I am in another town,
My wife is seventy miles away
An I bet she’s with a friend
An they ain’t talkin bout the time a day
But tonight when quittin time rolls around
Me an Sally are gonna be feelin fine
My man my woman my wife, my life!
Who cares as long as I get mine?
My man my woman my life, big deal!
Who cares as long as I get mine?