Just about sundown on the levee road near the old fishin' hole
Teaching me to shoot straight and true was your only goal
You threw a can up in the air and smiled
I pulled the trigger, missed by a mile, you said
Aim a little higher and you can't miss
Bless that can with a shotgun kiss
Aim a little higher, try it again
Aim a little, aim a little, aim a little higher
In later years on a river of tears I drifted home for a while
In those deceptive moments, in those deceptive days
When the dung and the mire look like the high wire
Will there be anyone who loves me enough to say?
"You gotta aim a little higher, aim a little, aim a little higher"
"You gotta aim a little higher, aim a little, aim a little higher"
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