Started A Band Lyrics - Singles - Bobby Pinson

I've turned sixteen, got a brand new six-string 

Haggard and Hank, Sting and Springsteen 

Peelin' the paint, every chance I got 

Daddy said, "You're pretty good but it's tough out there 

Now stairway to heaven won't get you anywhere 

Oughta cut your hair and get a real job" 

So I started a band and we got out of dodge 

In a dodge van with no exhaust 

Got high on the fumes but we played our tunes 

Ain't no one gonna say I can't 

Yeah, I started a band, started a band 

Started a band and I met a girl 

Sang my songs and rocked her world 

Goin' strong but out of the blue one day 

She said, "I can't love a music man" 

So I dropped my dream and sold my amp 

And I'll be damned if she didn't leave me anyway 

So I stared a band with a couple new guys 

We played those same old dives 

Yeah, we never sold gold, okay, we never sold 

Ain't no one gonna say I can't 

Yeah, I started a band, yeah, started a band 

But the lead picker always played too loud 

And him and the drummer had a fallin' out 

Bass man stayed out of it and just got drunk 

I was Nashville bound, my dreams were bigger 

I knocked 'em out they just couldn't pull the trigger 

And that's Nashville speak for I stunk as a solo man 

So I started a band, we play what we like 

On a stage that's eight feet wide 

But I got my pride and I got my van 

I kept who I am 

I started a band 

Started a band 

Can't get this guitar out my hand 

Yeah, I started a band