Run for Your Life

Our ancestors ran from predators and their enemies wielding arrows
 We run from calls of creditors collecting debts in great wheelbarrows
 Knowing nothing of the ancients' toil or strife
 When I run, I run for my life
 Politically-minded men run for the prize of public office
 And most folks run for exercize to avoid their stomachs' softness
 To attract prospective husbands or a wife
 When I run, I run for my life
 Run not to win some decorated prize
 When you run, run for your life
 I've seldom had to run to preserve my own existence
 And ain't it sad to lose your breath after only a short distance?
 The sharp pains in your gut cut like a knife
 When you run, run for your life
 Run not to win some decorated prize
 When you run, run for you life
 Run not to win some decorated prize
 When you run, run for your life
 Sedentary men, they don't have to run for nothing
 And I would rather run to you than run away from something
 Followed closely by a fiddle and a fife
 When you run, run for your life
 Run not to win some decorated prize
 When you run, run for your life
 Run not to win some decorated prize
 When you run, run
 When you run, run for your life