Glad I'm Gone
Buddy Jewell


Time was, we couldn't wait to feel each other's touch.
Couldn't stand to be apart too long or too much.
But now's a diff'rent situation: funny how love can start to fade,
How fast it goes from boom to bust.
Well, if I had my choice, we'd part as friends,
But it ain't up to me.
You told me to go where it don't snow:
Well, if that's how it's gonna be.

Just gimme two rails of steel,
Silver wings or eighteen wheels:
This ain't the first time in my life,
I been sent packin' with my pride.
All I need's a blacktop road;
Don't even matter where I go:
The moon an' stars will keep me company till the dawn,
An' when the sun comes up we'll both be glad I'm gone.

So you can keep your Dear John letter if it's all the same to you.
I've read the writin' on the wall: we're through.
Your words of consolation: your self-righteous indignation,
Sound more like lies, to tell the truth.
Feels good, I guess, to get it off my chest
Before I up an' leave.
So you can save your sermon for someone else,
Instead of wastin' it on me.

Just gimme two rails of steel,
Silver wings or eighteen wheels:
This ain't the first time in my life,
I been sent packin' with my pride.
All I need's a blacktop road;
Don't even matter where I go:
The moon an' stars will keep me company till the dawn,
An' when the sun comes up we'll both be glad I'm gone.

[Solo]

Just gimme two rails of steel,
Silver wings or eighteen wheels:
This ain't the first time in my life,
I been sent packin' with my pride.
All I need's a blacktop road;
Don't even matter where I go:
The moon an' stars will keep me company till the dawn,
And when the sun comes up we'll both be glad I'm gone.

Glad I'm gone.