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Just Because You Can Don't Mean You Should

from 56 by JOHN MOORE

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Just Because You can Don’t Mean You Should

I’ve been truckin’ all day long and all alone
Five hundred miles of freeway feels a thousand miles from home
Pull up off the interstate looking for a light
Some place to put this rig to sleep and layed out for the night

See a little sports car with the soft top down
A damsel in distress beneath the hood
Pull on up and offer my assistance
Just like any good truck driver would

Her name was Ooo La La from Paris France
I thought of all my buddies in Iraq and Afghanistan
But I figured that those guys would understand
Americans have got to lend a hand

Just because you can don’t mean you should
Just because it’s sweet don’t mean it’s good
Just because it’s free don’t make it a bargain
Someday there’s gonna be hell to pay and the Devil don’t stop running
Just because she makes your flag fly
Raised your stars and striped high
Just because you can don’t mean you should
But buddy if I was in your place I would

“Bonjour Monsieur my car it has broken down
It made a funny noise and then it stopped
I sink that she’s a little overheated
My engine got too hot and then she popped

Well I knew just what was wrong right from the start
I told her Madamoiselle you’re going to need a special part
Sometimes they’re hard to come by but tonight your lucky night
Cause right there up the freeway there’s a house of blue lights

We danced to Hank Williams, Ballard and Snow
Carl Perkins, Elvis, Tammy and George Jones,
And she was getting closer as the songs was getting slow
She kissed my neck and whispered ma Cherie shall we go?

Just because you can don’t mean you should
Just because it’s sweet don’t mean it’s good
Just because she’s the prettiest thing you’ve ever seen
From the coast of Carolina to the shore of New Orleans
Just because she’s hotter than July
Just because her fingers tapping drum rolls up your thigh
Just because you can don’t mean you should
But brother if I was in your place I would

Well it would have been un-chivalrous not to take the chance
When Ooo La La was doing that surrender dance
Them foreign little sports car can’t take you all the way
Tonight she wanted Cadillac, some Dodge and Chevrolet

We pulled up two days later in Mobile
For a drive-thru shotgun wedding at the Church of Coup deVille
It should have been the happiest day of my life
Unfortunately that shotgun was fired by his wife

Now people here’s the moral of this song
Everybody ought to at least try to get along
Extend the hand of friendship but keep your tractor shut
Cause it’s hard to drive an eighteen-wheeler with buckshot in your b b b b b

Just because you can don’t mean you should
Just because it’s sweet don’t mean it’s good
Just because it’s free don’t make it a bargain
Someday there’s gonna be hell to pay and the Devil don’t stop running
Just because she makes your flag fly
Raises your stars on your stripes high
Just because you can don’t mean you should
But buddy if I was in your place I would
Yeah brother if I was in your place I would – I know you would
Oh man if I was in your place I would
I know you would, I surely would, and so would I

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from 56, released October 28, 2022
John Moore - Vocals/Acoustic guitar
Boz Boorer - Lead Guitar/Steel Guitar/Autoharp
Brian Young - Drums
Richard Earls - Harmonica
Eos - Violin/BVS

Jeff Mortimer - Mastering

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