Shotgun

This post will be a different than usual, but hey, it might give you some insight into our lives that you weren't aware of! We are a family who loves the country, the ranchy life style, and with that comes country style music. As most of you know, I love southern gospel, and a lot of sg has country flare to it. But it is hard to find country music that has clean lyrics, but when you do find the odd song, we like how it tells a story and how the story often relates to our lives, past or present. Raquel enjoys Paul Brandt music and so we got her his new cd "Risk" for Christmas. The first song on the cd is called "Didn't even see the dust", which was one of the 20 most played country music songs in Canada in 2007. This song relates to our family, you see when we head out the door to go somewhere, you will hear someone yell "I call shotgun", and within a nano second you will hear "I call shotgun way home", and because we have 3 kids, someone is always left out! (If Mom & Dad both go, Mom always gets shotgun:) Normally you will hear this when the kids are headed out for a ride with their dad in the truck, but it's starting to happen when they come with me in the van. So much of this song describes us and how we like to hit the open road from time to time.

shot gun everybody getting for the long run
dont know where we're going
but the out come comes with a little bit of trust
lets go following whatever where the wind blows
flying with our hands out of the window
we didnt even see the dust

see how far we get
driving straight ahead
getting lost didnt seem to matter much
all we had was time and a yellow line
looking back we didnt even see the dust

chorus: shot gun everybody getting for the long run
dont know where we're going
but the out come comes with a little bit of trust
lets go following whatever where the wind blows
flying with our hands out of the window
we didnt even see the dust

ohhhh yeah
didnt even see it

we had ups and downs
we got spun around
we held on when the going got a little tough
it took love and faith
and some give and take
and grace
no we didnt even see the dust

shot gun everybody getting for the

chorus: shot gun everybody getting for the long run
dont know where we're going
but the out come comes with a little bit of trust (ohhhhh)
lets go following whatever where the wind blows
flying with our hands out of the window
we didnt even see the dust

come on now!

lets go following whatever where the wind blows
flying with our hands out of the window
we didnt even see the dust