"Take Me Back" lyrics

I drink whiskey like it's water
To see if I still feel
Smoke cigarettes like I can't be killed

Take me to another time
When they preferred whiskey over wine
See how long it'd take me to get my fill

When I head out on the trail
Load my tobacco pipe with smoke
Or buy myself a sack and a box of roll-your-owns

A simpler time and free will to live
This modern life, I wouldn't miss
Take me back a hundred years or so

I spend all day and night
Just pickin' on these strings
Wear my fingers down just to see if I still bleed

Stare and watch, I take the earth in
Amidst its wild, unruly spin
Beggin' God for a different time and scenery

And there, I'd make my living
In my saddle, with my rope
For a day's wage and a pack of roll-your-owns

A simpler time and free will to live
This modern life, I wouldn't miss
Take me back a hundred years or so

I stay up all night and get no sleep
Readin' these words in red
So when I pass to the other side
My soul is well and fed

Live as I'm from another time
Where there were more of my kind
Spend my days livin' and dodgin' death

And I'd blaze my own trail
And, freely, I would roam
Makin' heavy miles on a waspy, cold-backed colt

Oh, Lord, take me back a few lives
Do my best and live by your light
Take me back a hundred years or so
Take me back a hundred years
Oh, take me back