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(Roger Miller, BMI) One of the great Nashville songwriters.

Recorded at a concert in Tokyo, Japan in 1970 and originally released on King (Japan) LP SKK 662.

lyrics

Well I read it in the papers and I see in the television
Everybody’s worrying about World War 3
Here I am a single boy, unemployed and everything
Somebody’d better stop and worry about me.

CHO:
Can’t you just see me now, chin up chest out
Hup 2,3,4 all day through
Everybody seems to be worryin’ ‘bout something or other
Who’s gonna worry about Private John Q.

When I was a little boy I used to sit and dream of traveling
To lots of foreign countries and sight seeing tours
The way things look better stop saving money
Maybe go free sponsored by a third world war

Sometimes I get disheartened tryin’ to even think about it
Heaven knowns it’s hard to keep from lettin’ it get me down
But I’ll stand proud when everybody else will be
Runnin’ helter skelter for their shelter underground

credits

from Bowling Green, released January 1, 2008
Vocal duet
Mike-jew's harp
Alice-guitar

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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