Don McAvoy and The Great Whatever® - "Your Own Best Friend" - Play Music On The Porch Day 2024

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Hi Folks - Happy End of Summer and the 10th anniversary of Play Music on the Porch Day! Hope this correspondence finds you & yours well... I'd like to dedicate this one to my brother, Mike, and my dad, Don, for encouraging me to play this one on the night that I finished it (way back when...) and was just about to go on stage - I hope all of you can relate!

A resounding bid of thanks and gratitude to my dear friends who are family to me and mine,Istvan and Ilona Halasz for hosting us at their backyard and their wonderful hospitality and cold beverages, etc. (that fit very conveniently into the tune) - God always provides!

Also, my many thanks to my wonderful sons,Chris & Nate for their camera work and patience!

Last but not least, thank you, my soulmate, Elise and great buddy and musical compadre, Marc Arot, for humoring me in my antics...

God bless you all & thank you for listening!

dmc

"Your Own Best Friend"
Copyright 2002, Don McAvoy
Published by McAvoy Music Productions, Inc. (ASCAP)
610-454-9871
Administered by The Harry Fox Agency, Inc.
Lyrics printed by permission. All rights reserved.

INTRO

VERSE:
Sometimes there ain’t no one around
And sometimes this really gets me down
But I’m just sitting here
Sipping my own ice-cold beer
Sometimes you’ve got to be your own best friend

VERSE:
The older I get, fun’s harder to find
They all done and did it; they got married, those friends of mine
But I’m just sitting here
Playing solitaire, for now
Sometimes you’ve got to be your own best pal

CHORUS:
When I’m my own best friend, I make my own fun
When I’m my own best friend, I do what I want
Oh, those times can go so slow,
But I’ll never pretend
Sometimes you’ve got to be your own best friend

VERSE:
A friend of mine never got flowers
I said: “buy them yourself, enjoy them for hours…”
“Sometimes you just -
Have to make those moments come…
Sometimes you got to give your own love”

CHORUS / OUTRO