My Petition-Kenny Rogers

[ti:My Petition] [ar:Kenny Rogers] [al:Water & Bridges] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Petition - Kenny Rogers (肯尼·罗杰斯) [00:20.30]I just sat down to watch the game [00:23.74] [00:24.26]When I heard the doorbell ring [00:27.04]I wondered [00:28.21]Who in the world it could be [00:30.93] [00:33.72]Through the people all that I saw there [00:37.13]Was a [00:37.89]Crooked cap on curly hair [00:40.82]Some kid [00:41.62] [00:42.49]Squintin' back at me [00:44.50] [00:46.94]I said if you're sellin' somethin' [00:49.73] [00:50.78]Well I ain't buyin' nothin' [00:53.06] [00:53.76]But I [00:54.37] [00:55.08]Appreciate you stoppin' by [00:58.18] [01:00.32]Said I ain't askin' for a dime [01:03.12] [01:04.14]Just a minute of your time [01:06.60] [01:07.45]An' your name [01:08.38] [01:09.19]Here on the dotted line [01:11.69] [01:12.65]Could you sign my petition [01:16.21] [01:21.20]Had a spiral notebook in his hand [01:24.40] [01:25.21]Handed me a chewed up pen [01:27.57]An' I ask you [01:28.78] [01:29.44]What am I signin' up for [01:32.01] [01:34.91]I scrolled down that wrinkled page [01:37.85] [01:38.77]Saw a couple of neighbors names [01:41.25]I kept readin' [01:42.11] [01:43.41]Then I sat down on the porch [01:45.17] [01:48.18]It was a letter to the president [01:51.53]With a list [01:52.53]That numbered one to ten [01:54.81]It said make a law where daddy's don't work late [01:59.04]Keep uncle joe an' those soldiers safe [02:02.23] [02:02.86]Give those kids on tv [02:05.41]All they want to eat [02:07.47] [02:09.21]Put a stop to bullies on the bus [02:12.52]No crime no waits no hate no drugs [02:16.11]Give a jacket and a job [02:18.03] [02:18.82]To people on the street [02:20.94] [02:21.50]I said son sounds like a world I'd like to live in [02:26.96]And I signed his petition [02:30.49] [02:36.26]He thanked me for my time [02:38.90] [02:39.67]I headed back inside grabbed my beer [02:43.24] [02:44.11]An' got back to the game [02:46.25] [02:49.18]Thought by now that boy he's three doors down [02:52.33] [02:53.28]Here I am just sittin' round [02:55.55] [02:57.03]Waitin' on the world to change [02:59.95] [03:03.38]Must've blocked the whole game out [03:05.75] [03:06.82]All that I could think about was [03:09.67] [03:10.18]Make a law where daddy's don't work late [03:13.60]Keep uncle joe an' those soldiers safe [03:16.64] [03:17.34]Give those kids on tv [03:19.93]All they want to eat [03:21.95] [03:23.69]Put a stop to bullies on the bus [03:26.99]No crime no waits no hate no drugs [03:30.61]Give a blanket and a job [03:32.58] [03:33.39]To people on the street [03:35.84]An' I thought [03:36.69]Man ain't that a place I'd like to live in [03:40.96] [03:42.64]And I thank God [03:44.41]For that boy that's out there fixin' [03:47.68] [03:48.40]The world with his petition