All I Wanna Do - Live from the Ryman/2019

How ya doin', Nashville?

Welcome to the Mother Church

We're gonna go all the way back

Here we go

One, two, one, two, hit it!

This ain't no country club

And it ain't no disco

This is Nashville, Tennessee

"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"

Says the man next to me out of nowhere

It's apropos or nothing

He says his name is William, but I'm sure

It's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy

And he's plain ugly to me, and I wonder if

He's ever had a day of fun in his whole life

We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday

In a bar that faces a giant car wash

And the good people of the world are washing their cars

On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing

As best they can in skirts and suits

And they drive up in their shiny Datsuns and Buicks

Back to the phone company and records stores, too

But they're nothing like Billy and me

'Cause all I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning

And Billy likes to peel the labels off his bottles of Bud

He lays each one up on the bar

And lights every match in an oversized pack

Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers

Before blowing and cursing them out

He watches the bottles of Bud

As they spin on the floor

And a happy couple enters the bar

Dangerously close to one another

The bartender looks up from his want ads

'Cause all I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

And otherwise, the bar is ours

The day and the night and the car wash too

The Buds and the matches and the clean and dirty cars

The sun and the moon, sing it y'all

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun

I got a feeling there's a party going on, party goin' on

Right back there, I see the party

All I wanna do is have some fun

'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard