ADD: Still Gonna Die (Shel Silverstein)

Subject: Lyr Req: 'You're still gonna die' Adam McNaughtan
From: 8_Pints
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 08:38 PM

First heard this sung by Adam at Blaydon Folk Festival 2006.

Brilliant!

Bob vG

Subject: Lyr Add: STILL GONNA DIE (Shel Silverstein)
From: Peace
Date: 13 Apr 08 - 10:52 PM

I'd guess you want the Shel Silverstein song. Hope so.

STILL GONNA DIE

So you're takin' better care of your body
Becoming more aware of your body.
Responding to your body's needs.
Everything you hear and read
About diets, nutrition, Sleeping position
And detoxifying your system,
And buying machines that they advertise
To help you exercise.
Herbs to revitalize
You if you're traumatized.
Soaps that will sanitize.
Sprays to deodorize.
Liquid to neutralize
Acids and pesticides.
Free weights to maximize
Your strength and muscle size.
Shots that will immunize.
Pills to re-energize
You.
But remember that for all your pain and gain
Eventually, the story ends the same:--

You can quit smokin', but you're still gonna die.
Cut out cokin', but you're still gonna die.
Eliminate everything fatty or fried,
And you get real healthy, but you're still gonna die.

Stop drinkin' booze, you're still gonna die.
Stay away from cooze, you're still gonna die.
You can cut out coffee and never get high,
But you're still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.

You're still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.
Still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.
You can even give aerobics one more try,
But when the music stops playin', you're still gonna die.

Put seat belts in your car, you're still gonna die.
Cut nicotine tar, you're still gonna die.
You can exercise that cellulite right off-a your thigh.
Get slimmer and trimmer, but you're still gonna die.

Stop gettin' a tan, you're still gonna die.
Eat a lot of oat bran, you're still gonna die.
You can search for UFO's up in the sky
They might fly you to Mars where you're still gonna die.

You're still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.
Still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.
And all the Reeboks and Nikes and Adidas you buy
You can jog up to heaven and you're still gonna die.

Drink ginseng tonics, you're still gonna die.
Try high colonics, you're still gonna die.
You can have yourself frozen and suspended in time,
But when they do thaw you out, you're still gonna die.

You can have safe sex, you're still gonna die.
You can switch to Crest, you're still gonna die.
You can get rid of stress, get a lot of rest,
Get an AIDS test, enroll in EST,
Move out west where it's sunny and dry
And you'll live to be a hundred but you're still gonna die.

You're still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.
Still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.
So you'd better have some fun 'fore you say bye-bye,
'Cause you're still gonna, still gonna, still gonna die.


It's all over the www.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'You're still gonna die' Adam McNaughtan
From: Gene
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 02:08 AM

Yep, Shel wrote it, and nobody, BUT NOBODY, does it as good as
the OLD DOGS:

Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, M-M-M-Mel Tillis & Jerry Reed...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'You're still gonna die' Adam McNaugh
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 02:46 AM

Follow it up with Adam's Cholesterol song and we'll all live to be 100
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'You're still gonna die' Adam McNaughtan
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 07:59 PM

Unless you happen to be "Erchie frae Cathcairt" (who looked efter his hert, then got run over by a bus!) Another cracker from Adam!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'You're still gonna die' Adam McNaughtan
From: GUEST,Jockie
Date: 14 Apr 08 - 08:03 PM

He did it nane!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'You're still gonna die' Adam McNaugh
From: GUEST,MC Fat (at work)
Date: 15 Apr 08 - 04:24 AM

Adam is a class act. Saw him for the first time (although I knew and had heard his work) at Holmfirth a few years ago he went doon stoatin