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    "The Drive"genre: Bluegrass
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    An original bluegrass composition: A beautiful instrumental/vocal song with unique changes and solos, as well as a great story about my recent trip to Mexico
    CD: none   Label: none
    Credits: Dan Booth

    Story Behind the Song
    I wrote this song while I was riding in the back of a pickup through the desert in Baja California. It was HOT, and I was noodling on my guitar when the music just came to me. Then when I had the guitar part the melody popped into my head, so QUICK I got out the mandolin and worked it up! Wrote the first verse and chorus right there too in the first half hour. It all came out so good that it stuck in my head all the way back to Oregon... so here I am right now recording it!

    Lyrics
    I'm heading down to Mexico
    a place for me and my friends to go
    So hop into the back if you want to come along
    We'll see the world from near and far
    and take our chances with the car
    So come on in right now
    and hit the road with me

    We'll Drive, Drive, toward the setting sun
    We'll Drive, Drive, the day has just begun
    We'll fly down the 5 until we meet the sea
    and see what Mexico has got for me

    We cross the border easily
    and ride the toll road by the sea
    How strange the people speak and stare at me
    It seems as though we've come so far
    but still we get back in the car
    It's a long road ahead, hold my hand we'll soon be free

    We'll Drive, Drive, toward the setting sun
    We'll Drive, Drive, the day has just begun
    We'll chase the sun around the world
    and taste the ocean breeze
    and see what Mexico has got for me

    Just as we pull into town
    our attention starts to come around
    there's so many things for me to see
    The sun shines down upon my head
    and miles of sand for my feet to tread
    so I run to the beach, my God, I'm free

    We'll Drive, Drive, toward the setting sun
    We'll Drive, Drive, the day is finally done
    We'll write our names in the sand
    and sleep out by the sea
    Now I've seen Mexico I'll never leave

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