If I WAS A LUTHERAN 091918 -

James Michael Taylor

IF I WAS A LUTHERAN - capo @ 2 in C

If I was a Lutheran I might have married Dodie Harris
Learned hill-side irrigation and I’d have learned to weld
And all the city fathers would have slapped me on the shoulder
And all the city mothers wished me well

But I am not a Lutheran. I didn’t marry Dodie Harris
But I worked for her father spraying weeds with diesel fuel
And all that summer, there among the orange trees
With Jodie on my mind, in the house down the hill

And when you’re only thirteen in a little place like Woodlake
And everybody knows you’re the prettiest girl in town
How can it not affect you. Your parents must protect you.
When boys like Donny Brewer come around

If I’d been a Lutheran I might have married Dodie Harris