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I Don't Have To Crawl

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When you look at me
Like you don't know me
And you talk to me
Like you've never met me

I can leave you alone if i try
If I tried I could tell you goodbye

If I wanted to
I could be long gone
And I don't have to crawl

Then you call on me
As if I should run to you
You make your move
as if I should follow you

Well I don't have to be nobody's fool
I won't make no exception of you
I don't have to be nobody's fool
I don't make no exception of you

I don't have to crawl
I can just walk away
No I don't have to crawl

I don't have to get down on my kness

I don't have to crawl
I can just walk away
No I don't have to crawl

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bobo192 On Jul 20, 2002

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Cover art for I Don't Have To Crawl lyrics by Emmylou Harris

by SLYcrafts

12y ago

This is so wrong what I am seeing above! Rodney wrote it, his 1st wife Roseanne Cash sang it (among others later), & what is up above is so not how it was sang by either of them! This is one heck of a song I heard live (actually got to meet them & the band) live before 'King's Record Shop' was released. Stewart Smith did a 13 minute guitar lick during this song that was amazing!

Hopefully whoever put this up will fix it because 80% is missing & what's here does not come close to telling the STORY of what this song is about. For some reason it didn't show up under Rodney's song list & Roseanne's wouldn't come up when I just tried to share these lyrics to a friend. I'm gonna try to make sure they are there next time I long onto my laptop.

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