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I​’​m Going Over

from The Petals by Al Grierson

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lyrics

I’M GOING OVER

Well I ain’t nobody special, just an ordinary man
I got a cozy little corner on the cosmic plan
So there ain’t a lot of nothin that would strike me as a big surprise
This is a right life's a highway from the cradle to the grave
There’s only three things certain that’s Burma Shave,
I never been to heaven and my true love has green eyes

I’m goin over, across the river to see that Jerden roll
I’m goin over, over to the land of milk and honey
And I ain’t-a gonna pay no toll

Cause I never been invited to a White House ball
I never read much wisdom on an outhouse wall
I never been to heaven and my true love has green eyes

Well I woulda gone to Paris back in 28
But my ma was just a baby and the clock won’t wait
So they had to cancellate the nomination of a Nobel Prize
When Scott Fitzgerald went down to Gertrude Stein
There’s a lost generation but it sure ain’t mine
I ain’t even been to Paris and my true love has green eyes

I’m goin over, across the river to see that Jerden roll
I’m goin over, over to the land of milk and honey
And I ain’t-a gonna pay no toll

And while I mighta done a lotta things I can’t forget
There’s a whole lotta others that I ain’t done yet
I never been to heaven and my true love has green eyes
Still I made a lotta money in a good career
From the northbound brought up til the southbound steer
I was like a fertilizin benefactor of a billion flies
But it got too heavy so I let it go
And now there’s only two things that I know
I never been to heaven and my true love has green eyes

Yeah I know there’s that Burma Shave thing in verse one
But that ain’t exactly something I know
If you could rewind me back to verse one you’d see that I said
Is it’s one of the three certain things it is

I’m goin over, across the river to see that Jerden roll
I’m goin over, over to the land of milk and honey
And I ain’t-a gonna pay no toll

And now I never eat my dinner with the evening news
I never sweep a stable in my Sunday shoes
I never been to heaven and my true love has green eyes

I’s in a past life last life rollin through the void
With some right wing radical and Sigmund Freud
By the time I got a word in there was nothin left to analyze
So they both went downtown followin their bliss
And that’s what I’ve been doin and it all comes down to this:
I never been to heaven and my true love has green eyes

I’m goin over, across the river to see that Jerden roll
I’m goin over, over to the land of milk and honey
And I ain’t-a gonna pay no toll

Now I hardly ever do it if it don’t feel good
I never eat good and healthy like I know I should
I never been to heaven but my true love has green eyes

Yeah I hardly ever do it if it don’t feel good
I never eat good and healthy like I know I should
I never been to heaven but my true love has green eyes

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from The Petals, released June 10, 2021

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