When I was born, the doc he held me by my ankles
   smacked my red behind.
   They hosed me down, wrapped me like a bean burrito
   then marked the date and time.
  
   Hats off, to the ones that string the beads together
   and keep the ducks in line.
   Hats off to all the ones that stood before me
   and taught a fool to rhyme.
  
   At thirteen, I made myself a motion picture
   out of lumps of clay.
   At fourteen, I pulled some weeds and bought a four string
   taught myself to play.
   At seventeen, I'd get naked with a beauty queen
   at the Hot Tub Zone.
   At nineteen, she was livin' hard and snortin' drugs
   that decayed her bones.
  
   Hats off to the ones that put it all together
   and keep their ducks in line.
   Hats off to all the ones that erred before me
   and taught me how to survive.