Hard to beat home

from Ramshackle Junction by Ken McDonald

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Wake up to-morrow you won’t see me for dust
I’ll be outa here on a home bound bus
Make sure and tell Betty look after my truck
That old Caterpillar could change her luck
I’ll miss all you crew so don’t get me wrong
I hate to be leaving but it’s hard to beat home
Someone tell the Moth my lights will be out
So don’t come looking for your 21st shout
Say good-bye to Lik Lik the final trim king
I wish I coulda been half as good as him
I love all you people you people who roam
I hate to be leaving but it’s hard to beat home
Hard to beat home it’s hard to beat home
I’m missing the family I’m tired of the phone
Hard to beat home hard to beat home
I’ll be with my honey together alone
Tell Betty I love her she’s had a bad run
Sometimes you get thunder sometimes there’s sun
Good fortune misfortune they both take a turn
You gotta be patient and willing to learn
Whatever turns out for right or for wrong
Betty’s a gun but I gotta get home
I wonder if Shelly will welcome me back
I been gone a while will she talk about that
I guess I won’t know til she’s there in my arms
One thing for sure I got a heap of good yarns
Sometimes I been aching I ache to the bones
I hate to be leaving but it’s hard to beat home

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from Ramshackle Junction, released December 1, 2013

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Ken McDonald Music Brisbane, Australia

G’day, I am Ken McDonald, a singer songwriter who has been writing songs for over 40 years. I started recording albums for fun about 10 years ago. I have completed five albums, some with the help of family and friends.

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