Jack James - Why I Signed Up lyrics

On your way with the travelling band, better pack a bag It's your first time, this is your trip and it's mine You woke an hour early, it's my hometown This is why I signed up Two pairs of jeans, a long overcoat, five plaid shirts But you are from Scotland not Nashville, Tennessee, there's no pick-up truck But in the car there's a banjo and twenty CDs of Neil Young's This is why I signed up Two hours to the show, you're looking up lyrics to songs you wrote The front-man puts his head on, this persona you sometimes forget "It's an act I believe in," he says, "going for three years strong" "This is why I signed up" You try to record, taking pictures from town to town And you've not been bored for months now, things are moving fast And you've got so many ideas that you can hardly cope Ah... why I signed up