I was born in Oklahoma in 1969   My daddy played the honky tonks   Out on the county line   One night he took me with him   Through those swingin' doors   And I heard that country music   Saw that crowded dance floor   Dad made fifty dollars   And I stayed up 'til three   And I thought   This is the life for me      By the time I turned fourteen   I was pickin' lead guitar   Everyday I went to school   And at night I played the bars   Two or three years later   I noticed something strange   All the looks that I was gettin'   From the girls began to change   I knew right then and there   What I was gonna be   This is the life for me      This is the life   The only one I want to know   Everyday another town   And every night another show   Ever since I was a boy   I've had this crazy dream   Now I know it was meant to be   This is the life   This is the life for me      Well I tried to go to college    Just to see if I was wrong   But that ain't the kind of knowledge   That helps you write a country song   I got my education on the wild side of life   Through a cloud of smoke so thick   That you could cut it with a knife   There was no doubt about it   As far as I could see   This is the life for me      This is the life   The only one I want to know   Everyday another town   And every night another show   Ever since I was a boy   I've had this crazy dream   Now I know it was meant to be   This is the life   This is the life for me      Yeah this is the life   This is the life for me.