Songwriter: Ray Sawyer
Producer: Ron Haffkine
Just a little ol' boy about twelve years old, working on my daddy's farm
Gotta help him build an ol' chicken coop, gotta help him paint the barn
I was carryin' a load 'bout twice my size, not quite enough to brag
Papa just smiled and looked at me and said "Son let the loose end drag"
Son let the loose end drag
Son let the loose end drag
Papa just smiled and looked at me and said
Son let the loose end drag
When I got to be a man I started makin' plans to get me all the love that I can
I was sitting in a bar getting pretty far with a honey on my right hand
When up stepped a stud he was looking for blood 'cause the lady didn't come in stag
When you're caught in the middle you can bet your life that it'll be "Honey let the loose end drag"
Honey let the loose end drag
Honey let the loose end drag
When you're caught in the middle you can bet your life that it'll be
Honey let the loose end drag
Now my life is almost done every day I tell my son, the words my daddy handed down to me
You gotta hang on very tight to the things you know are right, let the fly-by-night things be
When the Devil calls your name and he says he won the game, and you know there ain't no turning back
When he says you're gonna die, you just spit right in his eye, and don't let the loose end drag
I ain't gonna let the loose end drag
I ain't gonna let the loose end drag
When he says you're gonna die, you just spit right in his eye, and don't let the loose end drag
I ain't gonna let the loose end drag
Gotta help him build an ol' chicken coop, gotta help him paint the barn
I was carryin' a load 'bout twice my size, not quite enough to brag
Papa just smiled and looked at me and said "Son let the loose end drag"
Son let the loose end drag
Son let the loose end drag
Papa just smiled and looked at me and said
Son let the loose end drag
When I got to be a man I started makin' plans to get me all the love that I can
I was sitting in a bar getting pretty far with a honey on my right hand
When up stepped a stud he was looking for blood 'cause the lady didn't come in stag
When you're caught in the middle you can bet your life that it'll be "Honey let the loose end drag"
Honey let the loose end drag
Honey let the loose end drag
When you're caught in the middle you can bet your life that it'll be
Honey let the loose end drag
Now my life is almost done every day I tell my son, the words my daddy handed down to me
You gotta hang on very tight to the things you know are right, let the fly-by-night things be
When the Devil calls your name and he says he won the game, and you know there ain't no turning back
When he says you're gonna die, you just spit right in his eye, and don't let the loose end drag
I ain't gonna let the loose end drag
I ain't gonna let the loose end drag
When he says you're gonna die, you just spit right in his eye, and don't let the loose end drag
I ain't gonna let the loose end drag
Pleasure & Pain The History Of Dr. Hook
- Here Comes The Blues Again
- Sweetest of All
- Everybody Loves Me
- I Don’t Feel Much Like Smilin’
- If Not You
- The Ballad of Lucy Jordon
- The Radio
- Lonely Man
- Better Love Next Time
- Stuck on the Wrong Side of Love
- Love Monster
- Jungle to the Zoo
- I Gave Her Comfort
- What About You
- Stagolee
- Everybody’s Making It Big But Me
- You Make My Pants Want To Get Up And Dance
- What Do You Want?
- Clyde
- Making Love and Music
- Levitate
- There’s a Light
- Storms Never Last
- I Never Got to Know Her
- Years From Now
- Sylvia’s Mother
- I Don’t Want to Be Alone Tonight
- Girls Can Get It
- A Couple More Years
- Pleasure and Pain
- The Millionaire
- I’ve Been Him
- Bread Upon the Water
- I Got Stoned and I Missed It
- Rings of Grass
- The Cover of the “Rolling Stone”
- Knowing She’s There
- Sleeping Late
- In Over My Head
- You Can’t Take It With You
- Walking My Cat Named Dog
- Lay Too Low Too Long
- When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman
- Only Sixteen
- I Need the High (But I Can’t Stand the Taste)
- I’m a Lamb
- More Like the Movies
- Cooky and Lila
- Oh! Jesse
- Sharing the Night Together
- I Couldn’t Believe
- Let the Loose End Drag
- Walk Right In
- A Little Bit More
- Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk
- Feels Good
- That Plane
- Sexy Eyes
- The Shadow Knows
- Mountain Mary
- Carry Me, Carrie
- Makin’ Love & Music (1977)
- Pleasure & Pain The History Of Dr. Hook (1996)
- Timeless (2014)
- Sylvia’s Mother
- Sharing the Night Together
- The Cover of the “Rolling Stone”
- Sexy Eyes
- Storms Never Last
- A Little Bit More
- When You’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman
- The Ugliest Man In Town
- Chained to Her Memory
- Up on the Mountain
- Bread Upon the Water
- Love You Now
- I’m a Lamb
- More Like the Movies
- The Things I Didn’t Say
- Help Me Mama
- Mountain Mary
- Do You Right Tonight
- The Shadow Knows
- Monterey Jack
- That Plane
- Dooley Jones
- Feels Good
- Last Mornin’