Hell or High Water

By M. Jay Mansfield

How many redneck dreams start this way…
I hold my beer and look over my land ..
Glimmers of hope and despair shine back at me…
I swallow deeply and push my chest forward…

I will make a difference
Hell or high water
I will show them what I can do
Hell or hell or high water

I will not succumb to the jeers
My grin goes from confident to psychotic
I will show them what I can do
Gunpowder lithium fertilizer too….

I will make them see…
All the things I can be
Here comes your Jesus your savior
Hell or hell, blasting cap in hand

Oh I will not be ignored
I will make them see…
What this man, this demon can truly be…
Hell or high water you’ll have to see

©5-20-07 MJMansfield