Nothing But A Breeze Lyrics - John Denver

Nothing But A Breeze 

Life is just too short for some folks 

For other folks it just drags on 

Some folks like the taste of smokey whiskey 

Others figure tea's too strong 

Well, I'm the type of guy who wants to ride the middle 

I don't like all this bouncing back and forth 

Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie 

And my head in the cool blue north 

In a small suburban garden 

Not a single neighbour knows our name 

I know the woman wishes we would move some place 

Where the houses aren't all the same 

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Jesse, I wish you would take me where the grass is greener 

I couldn't really say where it may be 

Oh, some place high on a mountain top 

Or down by the deep blue sea 

And there we'll do just as we please 

It ain't nothing but a breeze 

One day I'll be old gray Grandpa 

All the pretty girls will call me "Sir" 

Now where they're asking me how things are 

Soon they'll ask me how things are 

Well, I don't mind being an old gray Grandpa 

As long as you'll be my gray Grandma 

But I wish we would move with our tea and cookies 

To the shade of the old pawpaw 

There we'll do just as we please 

It ain't nothing but a breeze 

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Life is just too short for some folks 

For other folks it just drags on 

Some folks like the taste of smokey whiskey 

Others figure tea's too strong 

Well, I'm the type of guy who wants to ride in the middle 

I don't like all this bouncing back and forth 

Me, I want to live with my feet in Dixie 

And my head in the cool blue north 

Words and Music by Jesse Winchester