Steve Earle - Fastest Man Alive lyrics

[Steve Earle - Fastest Man Alive lyrics]

Well I come from West Virginia and
The day that I was born
Hit the ground running like a wind and
I was gone i was faster than a rabbit and
I left the deer behind
And the mountains couldn't hold me so
I headed down the line
Got to California, joined up with Uncle Sam
Said "I've come to whoop the Nazis
I'm a mighty mighty man"
They couldn't hold me down so they
Taught me how to fly
Then they shipped me 'cross the ocean
Now I'm the fastest man alive

My name's Charles Elwood Yeager
Everybody called me Chuck
I'm a bone stick and rudder
Mother brother sure enough
I was all that they could handle till
They shot me down in France


Then I swam across the Channel
Just to get another chance
When the war was over
Pinned a medal on my chest
Then sent me to an airfield in
The desert way out west
Said "Someone got an airplane
Everybody's scared to fly"
Said "Bubba let me at her
I'm the fastest man alive"

Well she looked like she was flying
'fore she ever left the ground
So we strapped her to a bomber
And we took a spin around
Said "Boys I'll call her Glynis
She's the one I love the best
What you say we put her
Aerodynamics to the test?"
We were high above the desert when
We let the sucker drop
When we lit that Roman candle boy
You should've heard her pop
It shook the mighty mountains when
We crossed that sonic line
Seven hundred miles an hour
I'm the fastest man alive

I'm a lover, I'm a fighter, I'm a sinner
I'm a saint i'm a mover, I'm a shaker
Ask your mother if I ain't
I'm the rumble in the thunder
I'm the bolt out of the blue
I'm the master of the stratosphere
A pilot tried and true
My name's Charles Elwood Yeager
And I've been everywhere
Paris, London, Timbuktu, and Dover, Delaware
Ended up in California
That is where I'm gonna die
I come from West Virginia
I'm the fastest man alive

I'm the fastest man alive
The fastest man alive the fastest man alive

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