I Lived So Fast and Hard - Porter Wagoner

Lyricist：Dolly Parton

Composer：Dolly Parton

Producer：Bob Ferguson

I was raised on corn bread and gravy

And I slept in a cardboard box

Till I was nearly three

I bathed myself in a muddy river

Runnin' by our shack

By the time that I had reached thirteen

I'd been through hell and back

I've been throwed from pillar to post

I've been banged around and scarred

I've done so much

I've seen so much

And I've lived so fast and hard

Mama died when I was young

And I never knew my dad

I never had the love and care

That other children had

I spent five years in an orphan's home

But I ran off one day

And I hoboed an old freight train

To San Francisco Bay

I've fought in the war

I've been in jail

There ain't much I ain't done

I'd lived as much as any man before I was twenty one

I've been throwed from pillar to post

I've been banged around and scarred

I've done so much

I've seen so much

And I've lived so fast and hard