Close Calls

Close calls, close calls

I will survive

Brick walls, big balls

Lucky just to be alive

I fought Buford Pusser in a honky-tonk joint

He whipped my ass, that's beside the point

Close calls, close calls

Lucky just to be alive

Been in lots of tight spots

So many that I can't explain

Big shots, bon mots

I don't always use my brain

Scuba divin' Pensacola

A hundred twenty feet down

I'm so glad Jack buddy-breathed me

Or I guess I would have drowned

Close calls, close calls

I don't always use my brain

Life can be a pickle

Or a stalk of sugar cane

One day you're wrestlin' gators

Next day you're singing, "Never Been to Spain"

In Spain, in Spanish!

Close calls, close calls

I will survive

Brick walls, big balls

Lucky just to be alive

I fought Buford Pusser in a honky-tonk joint

He beat my ass, that's beside the point

Close calls, close calls

Lucky just to be alive

Close calls, close calls

I will survive

Close calls, close calls

Lucky just to be alive