Thank You John Lyrics

With just three chords and the truth, and the tales of his youth

He'd tell you a story that you could be in

From Muhlenberg County, to the streets of Chicago

He chronicled all life that he was seeing

And he pondered a while, wearing an illegal smile

And he wrote of an angel's escape

And if today's a day, where it's all gone wrong

Just open a bottle and put on an old John Prine song

He told the story of paradise, long after it was gone

He figured out how to measure loneliness

But he was asking you "Why do you run?"

Now he's gone, this Van Gogh of song

To the hill where the angels sang

And if today's a day, where it's all gone wrong

Just open a bottle and put on an old John Prine song

Well, hoping against hope, heard the news I was dreading

Then I thought, what would he say

Yeah, the old fellow's resting, taking a break for a while

Will you finish my song today

As he joins Bill and Leonard

Far from me in the Tower of Song

And if today's the day, where it's all gone wrong

I'll just say thank you, and write my own John Prine song

With just three chords and the truth, and the tales of his youth

He'd tell you a story that you could be in

From Muhlenberg County, to the streets of Chicago

He chronicled all life that he was seeing

And he pondered a while, wearing an illegal smile

And he wrote of an angel's escape

And if today's a day, where it's all gone wrong

Just open a bottle and put on an old John Prine song

And if today's a day, where it's all gone wrong

Just open a bottle and put on an old John Prine song