Well I wake up in the morning, try to set my hook I used to be a settled boy, never stumbled or shook but now I've got no hand to hold, no friend to call my own and I ain't the one to ask much of big men in the sky, but it's all I got So maybe I'll pick up and go, with no thinkin' through just sleep out every night and try to forget you I'd look out on some ocean, wash my head in blue Well I ain't the one to ask much of big men in the sky but it's all I got Been a-rockin' and a-rollin', reelin' in my time I set myself up fancy-like, and set a brand new line well I oughta know by now it comes and goes it's true Well I ain't the one to ask much of big men in the sky, but it's all I got Well thinkin' ain't no pa**time and thinkin' ain't no friend If all you do is sit around and think about the end maybe I will get to prayin' someday before I'm through but I ain't the one to ask much of big men in the sky, but it's all I got