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John W Selleck

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John W Selleck

Songwriter

Hi All, I'm a songwriter, mainly country and gospel with a little pop, soft rock and jazz thrown in to keep you confused. John

Song Info

Genre

Beats • Beats General

Charts

Peak #17

Peak in subgenre #6

Author

John W. Selleck/Paul Street

Rights

2006

Uploaded

June 03, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:44 minutes

Meta Data

Samples

No samples, loops, or splices

BPM

Beat

Other

Vocals

Character

Energy

relaxed, cool

high-energy

Danceable

coffee-place

dancefloor

Positivity

dark, sad, angry

happy

Appeal

unique

radio-friendly

Story behind the song

A true story of part of my life. On the back of a cottonsack in Arkansas before I was a year old with my mama pickin' cotton in it. Definitely country before it was cool.

Lyrics

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When I was but a baby 
About a year or so                                  
My mom picked cotton in a sack
And on it me she’d tow
My folks were migrant workers
Each summer on our way
We lived hard but happy
Country music lit our way
It was on the AM radio 
With singers by the score
We listened to Hank Sr.
Charley Pride and many more

If you can’t hear my southern drawl
In that I had no part ---------------------------- Chorus
But country’s in my attitude
It’s deep within my heart
I ain’t gone as Alan put it
I got lost along the way   
But now I’m back to country
And you can bet I’ll stay

While I was still a youngun’
A child of only five
My dad got hit by cancer
And fought to stay alive
We moved up north by family   
I never did fit in                            
My accent they made fun of
This fight I couldn’t win

If you can’t hear my southern drawl
In that I had no part---------------------------- Chorus
But country’s in my attitude
It’s deep within my heart
I ain’t gone as Alan put it
I got lost along the way 
But now I’m back to country                       
And you can bet I’ll stay

Instr.Brk

I left my roots in country
Took years to get ‘em back
I went through rock and disco
But missed that cotton sack

If you can’t hear my southern drawl
In that I had no part ------------------------- Chorus
But country’s in my attitude
It’s deep within my heart
I ain’t gone as Alan put it
I got lost along the way 
But now I’m back to country
And you can bet I’ll stay

But now I’m back to country
And you can bet I’ll stay

Copyright 2003 John W. Selleck/Paul Street

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Comments 1

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Doug Murphy

Dec 30, 2009

Keep doing what you are doing John. Gave a slightly lower rating for the bottom 3 only because I thought it could have been more agressive. But that is just ones opinion.

Doug