Andy Budd

Lyrics

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Just eighteen and ready, to leave the family home / I packed up my old Chevy truck with everything I owned / Told my mom - I’m leavin'....... never to return / She said, before you go son, let me share some things I've learned

She said, to whom much is given, much shall be asked / With the gifts that good lord has given you, boy, you've got a mighty task / The whole wide world awaits you, I hope you’ve got the nerve / Good or bad, eventually, we all get what we deserve, She Said..

REACH FOR THE STARS IN ALL YOU DO AND YOU’LL SUCCEED / THERE’S THOSE WHO HAVE AND THOSE WHO DON’T, IT AIN’T TOO HARD TO SEE / THERE’S GIVERS AND THERE’S TAKERS SON, WHICH ONE WILL YOU BE? / CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS, AND IT SHALL COME BACK TO THEE

She said, you'll have to make deposits before you can withdraw / From the bank of human kind-ness, that’s a…. universal law / What goes around will come around that’ a, fundamental truth / Just take a look around you son if you need more proof

Stop and smell the roses, every now and then / Try to lead a life of service..........to your fellow man / Share your gifts from God with those you meet along your way / It can't come back to you............. if you won't give it away

REACH FOR THE STARS IN ALL YOU DO AND YOU’LL SUCCEED / THERE’S THOSE WHO HAVE AND THOSE WHO DON’T, IT AIN’T TOO HARD TO SEE / THERE’S GIVERS AND THERE’S TAKERS SON, WHICH ONE WILL YOU BE? / CAST THY BREAD UPON THE WATERS, AND IT SHALL COME BACK TO THEE

So, go on now, get outta here, get on with your new life / Remember what your momma taught you and you'll turn out all right. / Carry these lessons in your heart until the day you die / And that’s what my momma taught me on the day.I said goodbye



STORY BEHIND THE SONG:

I barely got out of high school, and I didnt have the grades to get into a regular 4 year college, so I enrolled at the local community college, it was more or less expected that I would go to college, but I just wasnt cut out for it, I mean, I really did try for the first few weeks, but it just wasnt me and mid-term grades came out and I had , like, 3 Ds and 2 Fs and 1 incomplete, so I figured, Id better get out of town before those grades hit the house and the you-know-what hit the fan.

So, I told my folks I was going back home to Charleston, SC, where I had graduated High School, for a few days during the mid-term break, you know, to see my friends. I waited until my Dad left for work, and I started packing up this Old ‘64 Mustang (Change to old’ Chevy Truck in the song.) with everything I had. I had this car packed so full, that I had to leave the spare tire behind in my folks garage.

Anyway, Unbeknownst to me, my mom, was watching me pack up all this stuff, (I think it was the record player that gave it away), and she said “You’re not coming back, are you?”

So I told her about the grades, and how I just wasn’t cut out for the college thing, and that I was really sorry to disappoint her and dad, but I just couldn’t stand the thought of one more lecture from my dad about how I just wasn’t applying myself, and that my grades were a result of just being lazy and all that. I just had to go. I couldn’t live at home with them any longer.

She said “It’s OK son, I figured this was it.” She continued, “You know its a sad day in a mother’s life when her kids leave the nest. You’re the last to leave, and this tough for me, but I understand. Before you go, let me share a few things with you.

This song is about that conversation. This is for you mom, I hope you like it and that you're smiling down on me from above.