ATF: Free At Last

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Dobie Gray]

Drift Away

Dobie Gray

Day after day

I'm more confused

Yet I look for the light

Through the pourin' rain

You know that's a game

That I hate to loose

And I'm feelin' the strain

Ain't it a shame

Oh

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll

And drift away

Oh

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll

And drift away

Beginnin' to think

That I'm wastin' time

I don't understand

The things I do

The world outside

Looks so unkind

Now I'm countin' on you

To carry me through

Oh

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll

And drift away

Yeah

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll

And drift away

And when my mind is free

You know a melody can move me

And when I'm feelin' blue

The guitar's comin' through to soothe me

Thanks for the joy

That you've given me

I want you to know

I believe in your song

And rhythm and rhyme

And harmony

You help me along

Makin' me strong

Oh

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll

And drift away

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock 'n' roll

And drift away

Oh oh oh oh

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

Free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock n roll

And drift away

Hey hey hey yeah

Give me the beat boys

And free my soul

Free my soul

I wanna get lost in your rock n roll

And drift away

Na na now won't ya

Won't ya take me

Whoa oh

Take me

Link: [Martina McBride]

Independence Day

Martina McBride

Through many dangers

Toils and snares

We have already come

‘Twas grace that brought me safe this far

And grace will lead me home

Well she seemed all right by dawn's early light

Though she looked a little worried and weak

She tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again

But daddy left the proof on her cheek

And I was only eight years-old that summer

And I always seemed to be in the way

So I took myself down to the fair in town

On Independence Day

Well word gets around in a small small town

They said he was a dangerous man

Bur mama was proud

And she stood her ground

She knew she was on the losin' end

Some folks whispered

Some folks talked

But everybody looked the other way

When time ran out there was no one about

On Independence Day

Let freedom ring

Let the white dove sing

Let the whole world know that today

Is a day of reckoning

Let the weak be strong

Let the right be wrong

Roll the stone away

Let the guilty pay

It's Independence Day

Well she lit up the sky that Fourth of July

By the time that the firemen come

They just put out the flames

And took down some names

And sent me to the county home

Now, I ain't sayin' it's right

Or it's wrong

But maybe it's the only way

Talk about your revolution

It's the Independence Day

Let freedom ring

Let the white dove sing

Let the whole world know that today

Is a day of reckoning

Let the weak be strong

Let the right be wrong

Roll the stone away

Let the guilty pay

It's Independence Day

Roll the stone away

It's Independence Day

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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