Slide Over Backwards

Oh Lord, oh
Hmm

Slide over backwards
Slide over backwards
Slide over backwards
Slide over backwards

I was just a little girl
A-making my own way
16 years or more I had
But nothing left to say
I raised myself up, almost lived on po'boys too
New Orleans ain't a place to live
If you never been to school

And I said
Slide over backwards
Slide over backwards
Slide over backwards
Let me ride

People gotta tell you
Slide over backwards
Slide over backwards
Ride over backwards
Let me ride

Daddy was a working man
He worked since he was five
He dropped his wings on my train one day
And never learned to fly
I wonder what it takes to be
Someone who knows why
The earth ain't round unless you can
Teach yourself to fly

And I said
Slide over backwards (ooh, yea)
Slide over backwards (oh-oh, lord)
Drive over backwards
Let me ride

People gotta tell you
Slide over backwards
Slide over backwards
(Sometimes you gotta be free) drive over backwards
Let me ride

Ever seen a lifetime you gotta be strong
Some days in lifetime you gotta be brave
Dig, get on your knees sometimes
Sometimes you even got to pray

Lord knows, Lord knows what it is sometimes (ooh yeah)
Sometimes I feel like I'm going down, going down
Going down for the very last time
Don't know what it is, don't know what it is
Sometimes, sometimes I feel like going down

Lord know, Lord knows what it is sometimes
Sometimes I feel like I'm going down, going down
Going down for the very last time
Sometimes I feel like I'm going down (down in my heart and brain)

Drive over backwards (let me ride)
Slide over backwards
Drive over backwards (ride)
Let me ride
Slide over backwards (ride)
Let me ride (ride)
Let me ride