Josh Ritter – Good Man

I’ve tried to tire of it. Based on my iTune’s 349 play count, you’d think it’d be old by now. But it’s not. It’s one of those songs that I feel I’ll only understand fully, or appreciate completely, when I am a bit more weathered from the wear and tear of cruising down the road of life.

In that way, the song somehow sits further down the road. I hope that as my skin wrinkles and my hair grays (or fall out!), to still be able to sing this tune with the same un-jaded idealism Josh Ritter does. I hope that even after “dry spells and hard times in bad lands,” I can still sing, “I’m a good man.”

Good Man – Josh Ritter

These chords are old but we shake hands
Cause I believe that they’re the good guys
We can use all the help we can
So many minor chords outside
I fell in love with your sound
Oh I love to sing along with you
We got tunes we kicked around
We got a bucket that the tunes go through

Babe we both had dry spells
Hard times in bad lands
I’m a good man for ya
I’m a good man

Last night there was a horse in the road
I was twisting in the hairpin
My hands held on my mind let go
And back to you my heart went skipping
I found the inside of the road
Thought about the first time that I met you
All those glances that we stole
Sometimes if you want them then you’ve got to

Babe we both had dry spells
Hard times in bad lands
I’m a good man for ya
I’m a good man

They shot old Weston south of here
They had him cornered in a canyon
And even his horse had disappeared
They said it got run down by a bad bad man
You’re not a good shot but I’m worse
And there’s so much where we ain’t been yet
So swing up on this little horse
The only thing we’ll hit is sunset

Babe we both had dry spells
Hard times in bad lands
I’m a good man for ya
I’m a good man

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