Pickin' at It Songtext
von Travis Tritt feat. Marty Stuart

You′re talking about all of those influencers
I saw, I was watching television the other night
I love the WSMV
They're showing old Music City Tonight and national noun clips
Saw one the other night
It was George Jones, talking about how much he loved you
Oh! How about that?
How about that? I loved him
He said, "That boy can r-"
And he′s right

Nancy Jones was here last night
Was she? Yeah
And it was so much fun to just get a chance to talk to her
And, you know, in-in the early days when we were first gettin' started
I used to do a concert down in-in Georgia
Marty actually came down and played with me one year
We did like a homecoming concert at the Omni in Atlanta
And the first year I did it, George agreed to come down
And play on the show with us


And-and we had it
I think it was George Jones
Trisha Yearwood, and Lynyrd Skynyrd was the group that we had
And ah, my mom, when George passed away earlier this year
This past year, my mom told me a story that I'd never heard before

With all his wild days, George had a soft spot in his heart for mamas
He loved mamas
Yes, he did
And he, my mom and my dad
Came up on the bus and got a chance to meet George at that show
And just as they were walking off
Of course, they got their picture taken, and they got
You know, autographs and the whole nine yards

And just as they′re walking off
My mom was just about out of the steps of the bus
And George said, "Miss Tripp"
And she stopped and she turned around and looked
And he said, "Now, that boy of yours"
Said, "I know he′s a little bit wild
And he's a little bit crazy"
He said, "But don′t you worry about him
Because I was a little wild and crazy in my day, too
That boy is gonna be just fine"


I know that gave her great comfort
It did, it did
She-she-she was like, "I never forgot that, you know, I never forgot that"

Hey, can I tell before we run any, can I tell about the time?
When we finally had us a hit, and we started and you, he called one night
We've been on the No Hats tour, and we hadn′t been to bed in a while
We're working on our, working on our act
So the phone rang in my bus one night
And it′s about two in the morning
He says, "Bubba?"
I said, "Everything all right?"

He said, "Yeah, I've been doing some thinking, though"
He said, "We need to make some changes in our life"
I said, "I don't disagree with that"
I said, "Do I need to call the preacher?"
He said, "I ain′t talkin′ about them kind of changes"
I said, "Well, what you talking about?"
He says, "We need to buy some insurance"

I said, "Alright, oh, where are we gonna be tomorrow?"
He says, "I don't know, but you reckon they′ll sell us some insurance"
There's bound to be somebody that would
So we called up this guy
And he come to see us, and he had his little briefcase
You remember them insurance guys that had the pins in their pocket? Oh, yeah
Oh, he gave us his pins and he was so proud of us
And, and he knew he had a couple of hillbillies that had some new money

So he started with me and I decided I needed some health insurance
So I started laying the money down for health insurance
He just made a killing on me
Then here he goes
Travis started buying fire insurance
Thousands and thousands of dollars of that country club money was going to fire insurance
He gave us some more pins, he gave us a calendar
And on the way out, he said, "Mr. Tritt, I also sell flood insurance"
And Travis says, "I don′t need none of that
I don't know nothing about startin′ one of them"

Wasn't long 'til half of Marietta, Georgia burned up
Not true
We better pick

Me and me and Marty have been off and on
In the last few months, we′ve been working in the studio on a new album
And Marty′s actually producing it with me
And it, this is a real, I won't call it an unplugged album, but it′s real, real close
It's-it′s-it's kind of getting back to the roots of things
And we put about four things in the can so far
And we′re going to finish it up in the next few months
And hopefully have it out before the end of this year

But, ah, one of the songs that we recorded for it is the first instrumental that I ever wrote
And the first instrumental that I've ever recorded
And for those of you who are not familiar with that term "instrumental"
I'm going to give you the redneck dictionary version of it (What is it?)
Some of, some of you Duck Dynasty fans will get this
The redneck dictionary version of the word "instrumental" is this
There ain′t no singin′ in it
Horse, Horse, that's right

And we went in, and we were getting ready to record this
And I said, "Marty, I said, you know, I′ve never, I've never recorded an instrumental before"
He said, "Really? You′ve never done an instrumental before?"
I said, "No"
He said, "Well, we're fixin′ to fix that problem right here"
So this is a, a tune that you can be looking for on that album
It's called "Pickin' At It"

Mr Marty Stuart, y′all
(I love you, I love you)
Yes, indeed
There he is
Thank you
I love that old boy