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A Room With A View

from The Secret of Life by Gretchen Peters

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I drive a cab in Brooklyn - I like my job okay
Nobody breathin’ down my neck - I just drive around all day
I meet all kinds of people - I’ve got the gift of gab
Been everything from bums to kings in the back seat of my cab

And I got a roof over my head
I got three square meals and a nice warm bed
I got a place I can call my own when the day is through
I got a room with a view

Don’t have much education but I know how people are
You’d be surprised what you can learn from the front seat of a car
I sleep real good most every night and my baby he does too
We ain’t rich but we’re alright just doin’ what we do

And I got a roof over my head
I got three square meals and a nice warm bed
I got a place I can call my own when the day is through
I got a room with a view

Now when this life is over and the angels take me back
I’ll let ‘em drive my yellow cab and I’ll be the one in back
But this world don’t owe me nothin’ - I learned that long ago
Got everything I’ll ever need to get me where I wanna go

And I got a roof over my head
I got three square meals and a nice warm bed
I got a place I can call my own when the day is through
I got a room with a view

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from The Secret of Life, released June 4, 1996
written by Gretchen Peters

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Gretchen Peters Nashville, Tennessee

For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville's most beloved and respected artists. A 2014 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Peters has accumulated accolades as both songwriter and artist. Her latest album, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury (May 2020), is a loving tribute to another Hall of Fame songwriter. ... more

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