Traditional country tune with an nice up-tempo beat - a real toe tapper!

» highest in charts:   # 60   (47,107 songs currently listed in Country)
» highest in sub-genre:   # 2   (1,358 songs currently listed in Country > Rockabilly) » today's position in sub-genre: # 71 in Rockabilly

This tune tells the story of my music life (and maybe others out there). My dad couldn't give us a whole lot growing up, but he and mama gave us the gift of music. Looking back, music has been a better friend to me than some video game or sports fad. I'll keep it with me all my life. (Thanks, Dad.)

Jukebox Family
By: Beth Davidson, BMI
Copyright 2005

VERSE:
Daddy’s gift was a second hand piano,
A banjo and an old flat-top guitar.
He was a jukebox full of songs
Of living right and going wrong.
He was a poor blue collar worker
And a weekend tavern star.

CHORUS:
So here’s to Elvis Presley
Feron Young and Patsy Cline.
Blue Suede Shoes and Love Sick Blues,
For you I walked the line.
The beauty of Amazing Grace in 3 part harmony…
I thank God above for Daddy’s love
And my jukebox family.


VERSE:
When I turned 18 I packed my things and headed out.
To find myself and some country music fame.
Daddy didn’t say goodbye,
He just looked me in the eye,
And said, “girl you better do right
By your jukebox family name.”

CHORUS…

VERSE:
In a corner on a dusty stand sits an old banjo
With worn out strings I never learned to play.
It’s a sentimental token, of a circle that’s unbroken
Cause by jukebox family’s never more
Than a melody away…

CHORUS…