Karaoké Outfit Drive-By Truckers

You wanna grow up to paint houses like me

A trailer in my yard 'till you're twenty-three

You wanna feel old after forty-two years

Keep droppin' the hammer and grindin' the gears

Well I used to go out in a Mustang

A Three-O-Two Mach One in green

Me and your mama made you in the back and I sold it to buy her a ring

And I learned not to say much of nothin' so I figured you already know

But in case you don't or maybe forgot

I'll lay it out real nice and slow

Don't call what you're wearin' an outfit

Don't ever say your car is broke

Don't worry about losin' your accent

A Southern man tells better jokes

Have fun but stay clear of the needle

Call home on your sister's birthday

Don't tell 'em you're bigger than Jesus

Don't give it away

Don't give it away

Five years in a Saint Florian foundry

They call it Industrial Park

Then hospital maintenance and Tech School

Just to memorize Frigidaire parts

But I got to missin' your mama

And I got to missin' you too

And I went back to paintin' for my old man and I guess that's what

I'll always do

So don't let 'em take who you are boy and don't try to be who you ain't

And don't let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of a wealthy man's paint

Don't call what you're wearin' an outfit

Don't ever say your car is broke

Don't sing with a fake British accent

Don't act like your family's a joke

Have fun and stay clear of the needle

Call home on your sister's birthday

Don't tell them you're bigger than Jesus

Don't give it away

Don't give it away