While You Still Can

Album: Port Saint Joe (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • Penned by John and TJ Osborne with Travis Meadows, this heartfelt acoustic track finds the two brothers singing of showing their appreciation for their parents while they still can.

    Call up your mom on the telephone
    Talk a whole lot of nothing til the cows come home
    And listen


    "Our dad was always telling jokes - the same old jokes [we reference in the song] - and we try to tell them like our dad would," John Osborne told Billboard "And our mom, like every other mom in the world, is constantly calling and wanting to have a conversation even when we don't have time. It just reminds me to kind of make the time, if you can, for those people."

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  • Jo from EnglandCorrection:

    Cross every T, dot most the Is
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