Fifteen Minute Bob: the song of the book

Cathy Forde tells the story of Fifteen Minute Bob (published May 2010) in song lyrics:

A young man wants to write and sing

Wants it more than anything

Meets his girl, can’t settle down

Won’t work a job, won’t stay in town

Not even with a kid back there

This man seems like he just don’t care for nothing but a dream.

Young man grows older, kid grows too

Nothing but distance between the two

A father’s ways leaves his son ashamed

For himself and his mother.

They can only blame

This man. Seems like he just don’t care for nothing but a dream.

Then one day a new song finds the man.

Success beats down his door.

The world is at his feet at last.

No need to struggle

 To be heard

Any more.

Now an older man draws crowds who care

His music’s playing everywhere

But he’s lost his lady, she’s left town

And his son can’t face a dad around

Who sacrificed it all for nothing but a dream.

He sacrificed it all for nothing but a dream.

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