| Sent 'Em Everywhere | to "I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash |
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I was thinkin' about where to work my second summer job And I knew with my grades, I just can't afford to be a snob So, I got my thirty interviews and I add/dropped some more And even Dean Wayne thought I was pretty hardcore She asked me if I thought I done enough to land a spot And I said, "Listen! I've sent them every resume I've got!" Sent 'em everywhere, man! Sent 'em everywhere, man! I sent 'em with a prayer, man! I sent 'em in despair, man! Rejection, it's unfair, man! So I sent 'em everywhere They've gone to Bingham, Dunham, Latham, Sonnenschein Darby, McKee, Cleary, Thompson Hine Jackson, Gibson, Hogan Hartson, Ropes Gray Simpson, Morrison, Patterson, Jones Day Hawkins, Watkins, Goodwin, Mintz Levin Becker Glynn, Fragomen, Axinn, I'm in a spin Sent 'em everywhere, man! Sent 'em everywhere, man! Like a boy scout, I prepare, man! I even have some spare, man! Gunners, we are square, man! 'Cause we send 'em everywhere They went to Sidley, Pillsbury, Peabody, Arent Fox Overy, Sonsini, O'Melveny, Baker Botts Wilmer, Frommer, Amster, Thelen Reid Thacher, Foerster, Littler, Milbank Tweed Cromwell, prison cell, Wachtell, Dickstein Ballantine, Bubble Bath, and then Cravath, you do the math! Sent 'em everywhere, man! Sent 'em everywhere, man! In class, I have been there, man! And I don't play solitaire, man! Grades are curved, beware, man! So send 'em everywhere! I sent 'em everywhere |
I was totin' my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road When along came a semi with a high canvas-covered load If your goin' to Winnemucca, Mack, with me you can ride And so I climbed into the cab and then I setteled down inside He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand And I said, "Listen! I've traveled every road in this here land!" I've been everywhere, man I've been everywhere, man Crossed the deserts bare, man I've breatherd the mountain air, man Of travel I've had my share, man I've been everywhere I've been to Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, LaPaloma Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo Tocapillo, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer I've been everywhere, man I've been everywhere, man Crossed the deserts bare, man I've breatherd the mountain air, man Of travel I've had my share, man I've been everywhere I've been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana Monterey, Fairaday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa Tennessee, Tennessee, Chicopee, Spirit Lake Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake I've been everywhere, man I've been everywhere, man Crossed the deserts bare, man I've breatherd the mountain air, man Of travel I've had my share, man I've been everywhere I've been everywhere |
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