The Year of Birth, 1917He even got the letter, direct from the QueenHis final words, still ringing my earsOf lessons learned in his hundred yearsSo listen hereIf it's a drinking song, make it a strong oneIf it's a country road, make it a long oneWanna wear cowboy boots, you'd better ride someWanna sing about a truck, get the miles doneTo sing a heartbreak song, you gotta hurt someMake the most of true love, you'll only get oneHow tall, if you're gonna stand for somethingIt means nothing at all, if it ain't all or nothingWe laid him down, in a field of greenWe thought about, all he'd seenWorld War II, man on the moonBerlin Wall, Beatles tunesPhones that think and talk and playSo much change, but so much the sameSome things don't changeIf it's a drinking song, make it a strong oneIf it's a country road, make it a long oneWanna wear cowboy boots, you'd better ride someWanna sing about a truck, get the miles doneTo sing a heartbreak song, you gotta hurt someMake the most of true love, you'll only get oneStand up tall, if you're gonna stand for somethingIt means nothing at all, if it ain't all or nothingWhere I'll be, a few years from nowWhere I'll be, a few years from nowWhere I'll be, a few years from nowThink I'll be saying this is the end of the worldThese same words to my little girl somehowIf it's a country song, make it a real oneIf you want true friends and learn to be oneWanna stand on stage and be the next big thingWell, you better go and put some hard yards inA heartbreak song's gotta hurt someMake the most of true love, you'll only get oneStand up tall, if you're gonna stand for somethingIt means nothing at all, if it ain't all or nothingIt means nothing at all, if it ain't all or nothingIt means nothing at all, if it ain't all or nothingSo go and give it all you got, son