Album: Second Helping (1974)

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• Well, every time that I come home
  Nobody wants to let me be
  It seems that all the friends I've got
  Just got to come interrogate me
  Well, I appreciate your feelings
  And I don't want to pass you by
  But I don't ask you 'bout your business
  Don't ask me about mine, yeah
  
  Well, it's true I love the money
  And I love my brand new car
  I like drinkin' the best of whiskey
  And playing in a honky tonk bar
  But when I come off the road
  Well, I just got to have my time
  'Cause I got to find a break in this action
  Else I'm gonna lose my mind
  
  So, don't ask me no questions
  And I won't tell you no lies
  So, don't ask me 'bout my business
  And I won't tell you goodbye
  That's right
  
  Well, "What's your favorite color?"
  And, "Do you dig the brothers?" Is drivin' me up a wall
  And every time I think I can sleep
  Some fool has got to call
  Well, don't you think that when I come home
  I just want a little peace of mind
  If you want to talk about the business
  Buddy, you're just wastin' time
  
  So, don't ask me no questions
  And I won't tell you no lies
  So, don't ask me 'bout my business
  And I won't tell you goodbye
  
  Ah, said don't ask no stupid questions
  And I won't send you away
  If you want to talk fishin'
  Well, I guess that'll be okay
  Why is that? Writer/s: Gary Robert Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

• Richard E. Schwartz from White Plains, N.y.Fantastic, each one of them!!
• Wildman from Clearwater ,fl.Just a country boy myself. These guys were not only talented musically they also had good enough communication skills to have startedthe band &made music. My 3 man or boy band cut school & drank their parents liquor. We were too drunk to amount to any talent. That was 40 years ago. I dont drink anymore. But i still rock nroll my gibson guitars!!!
• John from Beltsville, MdListen close at the end of the first verse. There is no chorus there but someone starts singing one: "so don't a...", then stops when they realize their mistake. Pretty funny.
• Rob from Maspeth, NyWHAT RONNIE WAS SAYING IS LEAVE ME ALONE, WHEN I`M HOME HANGING OUT WITH MY FRIENDS I DON`T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE BUSINESS, I JUST WANT TO TO HANG OUT WITH MY FRIENDS.
• Renee from Bloomington, MnI'm also with you Evan. I like this song for the message of I don't ask you about your business, don't ask me about mine. A similar song I enjoy for this message is Rumors by the Tmex Social Club. I quote that one a lot to people who insist on spreading rumors and inaccuracies about others.
• Evan from Winchester, EnglandI couldn't agree more. People need to mind their own business.
• Jenna Madsen from Eureka!, Caits absolutely amazing! great song, makes you just want to get up, dance, and have a big ole glass of whiskey!
• Bryan from Valhermoso Springs, AlJeanette, I know just how you feel about them all being favs. Another one of mine that is not on this site is I Know A Little, or as my car tag and email say INOALTL.
• Jeanette from Mcgrady, NcThis is one of my favorite Skynyrd tunes. Come to think of it, they're all my favorites.
• Chris from Milford, Ctthey talk about the allman brothers in the last verse of the song "whats your favorite color and do ya dig the brothers?"
• Jim from Gainesville, TxThis song was covered by country artist Chris Cagle on the soundtrack for The Blue Collar Comedy Tour movie.
• Ilikemusic. from This Isn't A City, Mdwho is the artist that performs the cover?
• Jon from Sunnyvale, CaI don't know the name the singer, but a cover version of this song is played during the end credits of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour movie.

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