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"I Never Expected" written by Shel Silverstein. Recorded by Mel Tillis and the Old Dogs (Mel Tillis, Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings and Jerry Reed) on the 1998 album "Old Dogs Vol. 2" Spoken Now friends I'd like to make...a short address, to those who lived furious and fast. So let me take off my coat and clear my throat, and finish what's left in my glass You see standing before you a barely living example Of the wild life's (say it Mel, Say it) (gulp) do's and don'ts But the danger is not that the fast life's gonna kill you The real danger is that it won't
GI nCever expected to last this long FIt caught me completely by surpCrise FI put aside enough to lCet me live jusA7t fine DBut I never guessed I'd last pastG 49
CI thought by now my friends would be toasting my memory FWhile the Devil was toasting my CsouL FOh but it's just my luck, CI outlived my bA7ucks DIt's the saddest story ever toGld FOh, how could IG have got thisC old G
CHey Mel, you should have bought a piece of the rock...Or aF no risk retirement pClan ButF instead I invested in aCll night bA7ars, slDow dancing ladies, faGst moving cars CI thought by now I'd be safe resting peaceful in my grave Fdue to all the women and Csong FSo I'd made no preparationsC for a drawn out situatA7ion
DHow could you have been so wrong? FI never dreamed IG'd last this loCng G
CLive fast, die young have a good lookin' corpse FThat's the motto we live so wCell FSo I played it hard and high Cbut somehow I didn'A7t die DAnd I think my corpse is gonnaG look like hell
CAnd the slight miscalculation on the date of my expiration FLeft me singing this sad, sad sCong FSo buddy can you spare a quarter, CI'm living longer than I ougA7hter DHow could you have been so wrong? FI never thought Gi'd last this lonCg A7Pour me the metamAucl FNever thought GI'd Last this loCng