Gary Fjellgaard Song Lyrics > All in the Journey

My wife said I should retire / I think you’ve lost your fire
And you’ll never write the perfect country song
What’s that you say my dear / Try the other ear
I’ll know when it’s time to move along

You know I get these muscle cramps / Pickin up my amp
I need help just to get up on the stage
My eyes are getting dim / I gotta feel to plug it in
And the only thing I’m feelin is my age
Chorus
It’s knowin when to quit the business
Head on down to old Mexico
It’s cold out on the prairies / When you tour in January
With the wind chill it’s fourty nine below
It’s knowin when to quit the business
Time to give it up and let it go
This musical direction / Needs a southerly conection
It’s knowin when to quit and go to Mexico

I still got some cowboy pride / In this dried up wrinkled hide
I feel like twenty one / In my brain
I stand up here so proud / But out there in the crowd
Is a look of mild discomfort and disdain

If we pair things to the bone / Sell everything we own
We’ll still be broke and livin in the red
Oh, did I fail to mention / We get the old age pension
We can live on that but only if we’re dead
Chorus (last half)

Writer Gary Fjellgaard
Publisher Slim Creek Music