[ti:When the Word Was Thunderbird] [ar:Billy Joe Shaver] [al:I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal...But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]When the Word Was Thunderbird - Billy Joe Shaver [00:08.27]Up every morning at the crack of dawn [00:12.41]Nights as short as the days are long [00:16.05]Life turned out to be another magazine [00:24.05]I'm Livin' with a stranger now [00:27.94]Girl i knew got away somehow [00:31.45]She went out with two bit gasoline [00:35.64]I wanna go back [00:37.00]You know what i mean ah [00:39.69]When the word was Thunderbird [00:43.33]And the price was forty twice [00:47.33]Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun [00:54.19]Now but love turned out to be a passin' thing [00:58.90]Different bird of a different wing [01:02.43]Some damn fool put a dollar twenty nine [01:06.76]On a jug of Thunderbird wine [01:09.35]And Lord i don't know if i'm gonna make it [01:13.69]I Don't know if I'll have the strength to take it [01:17.48]Everything's hung up in yesterday [01:56.19]Married to a civic minded social girl [01:59.83]Takin' short cuts in a woman's world [02:03.57]She won't let her hair down when I'm home [02:11.15]Society's just slavery [02:14.48]And security is killing me [02:18.58]I work hard for it but i give it all away [02:22.80]If i could go back to yesterday [02:26.55]When the word was Thunderbird [02:30.47]And the price was forty twice [02:34.20]Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun [02:41.01]Now but love turned out to be a passin' thing [02:45.58]Different bird of a different wing [02:49.04]Some damn fool put a dollar twenty nine [02:53.33]On a jug of Thunderbird wine [02:56.02]And Lord i don't know if i'm gonna make it [03:00.10]I don't know if I'll have the strength to take it [03:04.08]Everything's hung up in yesterday [03:12.03]When the word was Thunderbird [03:15.74]And the price was forty twice [03:19.55]Drinkin' wine and lovin' you was fun