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I attended a songwriting workshop with Joe Newberry in Greensboro, NC a couple of years ago. One of the things we discussed was “Where do songs come from?”

He gave us an exercise where had us write a page. Just one page. I think it might have been a page about our day, or our morning, or the day before, or anything at all, it didn’t matter just write it. So we did.

Then we went through each paper and pulled out phrases that stood out and wrote these phrases on a dry erase board. “First Cup Of Coffee”, “Jumpstart my day”, ”You Don’t Have to Like It”,”I Love my wife and my children”, “The adult in the room”. We then went to lunch. I had this song mostly finished by the time we came back.

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As I sit here drinking my first cup of coffee
just trying to jumpstart my day
to make myself do the things I dont want to
Just so I can bring home some pay

I dearly love my wife and my children
But I never know how to say
the words that would tell them, just how much I need them
but talking about those thing well it just ain't my way

When I was a kid we never talked about feelings
Because feelings dont matter they just get in the way
You don't have to like it, you just have to do it
That's one of the things that the Old Folks would say

Now I'm pushing sixty but I feel like a kid
still trying to find my way
My old man is gone but I wish I could ask him
If he ever felt the same in his day

As I linger over this cold cup of Coffee
Knowing I must leave pretty soon
so I can go do things that I dont want to
and be the Adult in the room,

When I was a kid we never talked about feelings
Because feelings didn't matter they just got in the way
You don't have to like it you just have to do it
That's one of the things that my old man would say

You don't have to like it you just have to do it
I wish the Old Man was with me here today

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from DOWNLOAD - A Little Bit Weird, released January 10, 2022
Jeff Wall - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

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Jeff Wall Kernersville, North Carolina

Acoustic Hillbilly, Honky-Tonk, Bluegrass Music with heart, soul, and God's honest truth. He'll make you laugh, he'll make you cry, he'll make you tap your foot.

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