I drink whiskey like it's water To see if I still feel Smoke cigarettes like I can't be killed Take me to another time when they preferred whiskey over wine See how long it'd take me to get my fill When I'd Head out on the trail and load my tobacco pipe with smoke Or buy myself a sack and a box of roll your owns A simpler time n' free will to live This modern life I wouldn't miss Take me back 100 years or so I spend all day and night Just picking on these strings Wear my fingers down Just to see if I still bleed Stare and watch I take the earth in Amidst its violent unruly spin Beggin' God for different time and scenery Where I'd make my livin' In my saddle and with my rope For a days wage and a pack of roll your owns A simpler time n' free will to live This modern life I wouldn't miss Take me back 100 years or so I stay up all night and get no sleep Reading these words in red So when I pass to the other side My soul is well and fed Live as I'm from another time Where there were more of my kind Spend my days living and dodging death And I'd blaze my own trail and freely I would roam Makin heavy miles on a waspy cold backed colt Oh Lord take me back a few lives Do my best to live by your light Take me back 100 years or so Take me back 100 years Oh, take me back