Six Of One, Half A Dozen (of The Other) Lyrics - The Early Year - Joe Nichols

I do my best to play by the rules 

I've bend a couple even break a few 

Don't get me wrong, I wanna do right 

I just can't seem to live in a virtuous light 

Headaches by the bottle, heartaches by the number 

Six of one, half dozen of the other 

I fell in love with a preachers daughter 

They washed my soul in the holy water 

I gave her my heart and bought her a house 

The devil broke in and broke me out 

Now I owe the bank some money and I lost another lover 

Six of one, half dozen of the other 

No matter how you add it up it's always the same 

I give it my best and all I gets the blame 

I'm living and loving and barely breaking even 

Can't be me must be the company I'm keeping 

I went on out and made some brand new friends 

Started my life all over again 

Now some of them are saints and some of them are sinners 

I'm still searching for a way to be a winner 

I roll box cars one way or another 

Six of one, half dozen of the other