Steve Earle — Fastest Man Alive

[Verse 1] Well I come from West Virginia and the day that I was born Hit the ground running like a wind and I was gone I was faster than a rabbit and I left the deer behind And the mountains couldn't hold me so I headed down the line Got to California, joined up with Uncle Sam Said "I've come to whoop the Nazis, I'm a mighty mighty man" They couldn't hold me down so they taught me how to fly Then they shipped me 'cross the ocean, now I'm the fastest man alive [Verse 2] My name's Charles Elwood Yeager, everybody called me Chuck I'm a bone stick and rudder mother brother sure enough I was all that they could handle till they shot me down in France Then I swam across the Channel just to get another chance When the war was over, pinned a medal on my chest Then sent me to an airfield in the desert way out west Said "Someone got an airplane everybody's scared to fly" Said "Bubba let me at her, I'm the fastest man alive" [Verse 3] Well she looked like she was flying 'fore she ever left the ground So we strapped her to a bomber and we took a spin around Said "Boys I'll call her Glynis, she's the one I love the best What you say we put her aerodynamics to the test?" We were high above the desert when we let the sucker drop When we lit that Roman candle boy you should've heard her pop It shook the mighty mountains when we crossed that sonic line Seven hundred miles an hour, I'm the fastest man alive [Instrumental Verse] [Verse 4] I'm a lover, I'm a fighter, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint I'm a mover, I'm a shaker, ask your mother if I ain't I'm the rumble in the thunder, I'm the bolt out of the blue I'm the master of the stratosphere, a pilot tried and true My name's Charles Elwood Yeager and I've been everywhere Paris, London, Timbuktu, and Dover, Delaware Ended up in California, that is where I'm gonna die I come from West Virginia, I'm the fastest man alive [Outro] I'm the fastest man alive The fastest man alive The fastest man alive