On That Note: Rattle Your Jewelry

[cyfanatic]

One of my all-time favorite bands...the Gear Daddies: Wear Your Crown

Open your eyes and look around
Then slowly get up off the ground
First figure where you are
Find your keys, your coat, your car
I don’t want to wear your crown
I’ll only let you down

Now both my feet on solid ground
I take a clearer look around
Things weren’t always good
I’d make amends if I thought I could
I was young, very young
I let my life slip so far down

Sometimes I think that I’ve already sealed my fate
Need a sign to hit me like a semi
Tell me that it’s not too late
I don’t want to wear your crown
I’ll only let you down

Maybe it wasn’t meant to be
I’ve got a past keeps haunting me
No matter how hard I try
It’s there, it stares me in the eye
I don’t want to wear your crown
I’ll only let you down

Please don’t make me wear your crown
Don’t you know I was born to let you down
I don’t want to wear your crown
I’ll only let you down

 

[cyfanatic]

BoDeans: Texas Ride Song

We laid down under stars
Under the dead of night
There in a field of wildflowers
Baby we finally made things right
Where no bands of gold or
Diamond rings or wished of well could hold
More than our hearts of good intentions
More than our promise told

 

[cyclones500]

“Please put your rings on a different finger.”

 

[cyclones500]

(Toward the end): “Take off your necklace and throw it away.”

 

[Buster28]

George Jones and Lacy J. Dalton "Size Seven Round (Made of Gold)", a single from 1985 that reached #19 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart.

 

[MuskieCy]

 

[MeanDean]

A man came up to me and asked me
What the time was that was on my watch, yeah
And I said

 

[MeanDean]

Well, I looked at my watch, it was 9:21
Without a rock 'n' roll dance, havin' nothin' but fun

 

[cyclones500]

Oops just realized @CYdTracked posted this way before I did.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

"Is she really going out with him?
"Well, there she is, let's ask her"
"Betty, is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing?"
"Mmm-hmm"

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

All of my friends have a ring on their finger, they have someone
Someone to care for them, it ain't fair, I got no one

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

I'm as green as the ring on my little cold finger

 

[raftercy]

Later on outside the Tastee Freeze
Tommy slips something on her hand
He says my high school ring will have to do
'Til I can buy a wedding band

 

[Buster28]

All of my friends have a ring on their finger, they have someone
Someone to care for them, it ain't fair, I got no one

And just for fun, the cover by Louise Mandrell, a 1985 single that went to #22 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

 

[cyclones500]

Probably my least-favorite song on “Fables of the Reconstruction." Main verse/riff is fine, but I loathe the "auctioneer" refrain part. But … I’m using it anyway!

“Take this penny and make it into a necklace when I leave.”