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Backstory:

This was a title track, for a very popular Jerry Jeff Walker album, released in 1978.                                                                                               

Lyrics:

                                                  
             Contrary To Ordinary
                         words/music Billy Jim Baker,Cedarwood Music BMI
Never lived my life...Through other peoples eyes
I'm still riding...Through a storm twice my size
Always been a drifter...And I guess I always will
Drifting off to see a sunset...On the other side of the hill

Been a rag-tag band...Been a traveling one man circus
Finding every piece of the puzzle...Has a purpose
Living the life of a gypsy...Is a dreamers fate
Grinning down the devil...When you're holding aces and eights

I WAS CONTRARY TO ORDINARY
EVEN AS A CHILD...FAST FREIGHTS MADE ME WONDER
FULL MOONS DROVE ME WILD...STORIES DO COME TRUE
IF YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE IN EPISODES
I GOT ONE EYE ON THE LADIES...AND ONE EYE ON THE OPEN ROAD

When I die...Forget the tombstone on my grave
Give me a honky-tonk jukebox...And the songs we always played
Don't send a preacher down, or a fancy epitaph
Say that I liked to live...And lord, did he love to laugh

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