DESCRIPTION:
Butterfly is track 18 on Born With A Tail.
Rolling Machine Records, 2003.

I've been a worm since I was born
But I'll change before I die
Someday soon I'll come out of this cocoon
And turn into a butterfly

Grandpa drank mash and talked that trash
Died in a coal mine blast
Daddy smoked crack talked straight smack
Gotta cap popped in his ass

Daddy died and Momma cried
On the shoulders of other men
I stayed home all alone
And played with my imaginary friends

They're pretty good guys who like to get high
It helped to stop the pain
One quick blast makes your heart beat so fast
You feel the blood boiling in you veins

My buddy Vernon loved his bourbon
And everything else that burned
My girl Ophelia only drank tequila
Her favorite part was the worm

We were playing by the tractor with an old firecracker
And a can of gasoline
There was one quick blast that burned all the grass
Brightest thing that I had ever seen

I saw my grandpappy flying behind my daddy
They picked me up where I fell down
The field was burning Ophelia and Vernon
Slithered back down into the ground

Momma came running I tried to yell something
but my mouth couldn't form the words
She didn't see me up there so high in the air
With all the butterflies and the birds

I've been a worm since I was born
But I'll change before I die
Someday soon I'll come out of this cocoon
And turn into a butterfly
And turn into a butterfly

I've been a worm...

I've been a worm since I was born
I'll change before I die
Someday soon come out of this cocoon
And turn into a butterfly
And turn into a butterfly
(Lyrics by Hugh DeNeal)

WBG:
Hugh DeNeal
Alex Kirt
Brian DeNeal
Ratliff Dean Thiebaud
Pete McRaven
Chad Shaffer

Guest musicians:
Randy Crouch - fiddle & pedal steel
Julie Sommer - vocals
Kevin Kozol - piano
Sam Boss - mandolin

Produced by WBG & Mike Lescelius.
Engineered by Mike Lescelius.
Mixed by Mike Lescelius, Pete McRaven & WBG.
Recorded, mixed & mastered at Misunderstudio, Murphysboro, IL.
https://www.facebook.com/misunderstudio
Mastered by Pete McRaven.
Front cover illustration by Allen Jaeger

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