Lyrics:

When I was just a lad of ten my mother said to me,
There's nothing like the singing of a song to set you free;
There's nothing like the loving that you're givin' in a song;
There's nothing like the magic when the folks all sing along.

So I took her for her wisdom and I took it on the road,
And for more than twenty years or so I played the best I know
To folks in towns and cities all across the countryside;
Dispelling rumors someone spread that folk music had died.
But now I'm too fun for the folkies, but too folkie for the Times,
I don't think I will change my music just to change their minds.
I'd rather kiss success goodbye than kiss the right behinds;
And be too funky for the folkies and too folkie for the Times.

Well I got to know the business and I got to know the ropes;
And I got to know the geniuses and got to know the dopes
I know the oxymorons who perpetuate the joke
That there is something known in music as the 'cutting edge of folk.'
Yes there's something known in music as the 'cutting edge of folk.'

Well I've heard of drive-through parking and I've heard of jumbo shrimp.
I've heard of outlet entrances and boats made of cement.
There's cold soup and hot chili and skunks without a scent;
But if folk has got a cutting edge then I'm the President.
Yes if folk has got a cutting edge then I'm the President.