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CHAPTER ONE: "DONE RIGHT"
GENRE: Southern rock / country rock anthem
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STYLE PROMPT:
Uplifting southern rock anthem, 112 BPM, driving kick and snare, gritty
electric slide guitar, B3 organ under the chorus, handclaps, gravelly male
lead vocal, big gang-vocal chorus, hard ending. Blue-collar and triumphant.
[Chorus]
One name on the truck and one word on my hands -
DONE RIGHT, WITH INTEGRITY - that's how a good man stands.
From the ridge cap to the rain, from the brush down to the bluff,
When the job gets rough, brother - A NEFF IS ENOUGH.
[Verse 1]
Four forty-five and the sky's still black,
Thermos full and the ladders on the rack.
Diesel hum on a Washington road,
Coffee in my fist and the trailer's got a load.
[Verse 2]
That cedar's been drinking since 1989,
Soft as a sponge on the northern side.
We strip her to the studs, we don't cover up the rot -
House wrap tight, and she's dry as she's ever got.
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Tear-off day and the shingles fly,
Twenty-two square 'fore the noon-day sky.
Underlayment down before the clouds get mean,
Ridge cap straight as a razor - clean.
[Verse 4]
You got a waterfall comin' over your front door,
A moat where the flower bed used to be before.
Seamless run and the downspout true -
Now the rain goes where the rain's supposed to.
[Chorus]
[Verse 5]
Two coats minimum, cut the line by hand,
Tape don't lie and that trim looks grand.
Navy and gold, or whatever you choose -
Curb appeal so good it gives your neighbors the blues.
[Verse 6]
Two a.m. and the phone lights up,
Supply line blew and the basement's a cup.
Don't you panic, ma'am - keep the kids in bed,
We'll be there 'fore that water finds the sheetrock overhead.
[Chorus]
[Verse 7]
Now the three-thirty-five sits low and mean,
Steel teeth spinnin' and it's hungry for green.
Blackberry jungle where the pasture ought to be -
Come back Friday, you'll be lookin' at a tree.
[Verse 8]
August dry and the hillside cracks,
Ladder fuel stacked on the ridge out back.
We chew it to a carpet, leave it layin' on the ground -
That's defensible space. Now go sleep sound.
[Chorus]
[Verse 9]
Cousin Larry says he'll do it for a case of beer,
Watched a video - he's basically an engineer.
Six months later the fascia's on the lawn,
And Larry? Larry's phone's been off since dawn.
[Verse 10]
Climbed a ladder to a gutter packed with leaves,
Found a wasp condo and a squirrel with a lease.
He gave me a look like I owed HIM rent -
Boys, I have never seen a man descend.
[Chorus]
[Verse 11]
No bait, no switch, no mystery fee,
Line by line, so you see what you see.
If I got it wrong, then I eat it - that's the deal.
Around here a handshake's still a thing that's real.
[Chorus]
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