Slide Over Backwards

[Intro]

Ooh, ooh, oh, oh

Mmm, mmm, mmm

Ride over backwards

Ride over backwards

Ride over backwards

Ride over backwards, haha

[Verse 1]

I was just a little girl

A-making my own way

Sixteen years or more I had

Nothing left to say

I raised myself up almost

Lived on po'boys, too

New Orleans ain't a place to live

If you never been to school

And I says

[Chorus]

Ride over backwards

Slide over backwards

Ride over backwards

Let me ride

(People gotta tell ya)

Slide over backwards (Oh)

Slide over backwards

Ride over backwards

Let me ride (Haha)

[Verse 2]

Daddy was a working man

He worked since he was five

He dropped his wings on my train one day

And never learned to fly

I wonder what it takes to be

Someone who knows why

The earth ain't round unless you can

Teach yourself to fly

And I says

[Chorus]

Ride over backwards (Woo, yeah)

Slide over backwards

Slide over backwards (Oh, oh Lord)

Let me ride

(People, gotta tell ya)

Slide over backwards

Slide over backwards

(Sometimes you got to be free)

Slide over backwards

Let me ride

[Bridge]

Every single lifetime you gotta be strong

Some days in a lifetime you gotta be brave

Dig, get on your knees sometimes

And sometimes you even gotta pray

[Outro]

Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, what it is (Oh Lord, yeah)

Sometimes, sometimes I feel like I'm going down (Oh Lord, yes)

Going down, going down for the very last time

Don't know what it is, don't know what it is

Sometimes, sometimes I feel like going down

Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, what it is

Sometimes, sometimes I feel like I'm going down

Going down, going down for the very last time

Sometimes I feel like going down

Down in my heart I pray

Ride over backwards (Let me ride)

Slide over backwards

Ride over backwards (Ride)

Let me ride

Ride over backwards (Ride)

Let me ride (Ride)

Let me ride