well i went down to a music city function where i just heard a song that i had to howl out my lawyers told my to proceed with caution or i d make a whole lot of songwriters mad uh huh and i said hey john michael montgomery won t mind if i take a song and make it mine all mine like i did so many times with old tim mcgraw s yeah i never heard anything sound so fine mind if i borrow one or two of your lines well i stole it once stole it twice i stole it from a writer on music row well he just moved to town and he didn t know about ascap sesac or bmi so he might as well kiss his song goodbye i had my number two pencil going about a mile a minute till i had his ideas all written down and i knew i really went and did it when the police came and hauled my butt downtown and i said hey john michael montgomery won t mind if i steal a song and make it mine all mine like i did so many times with tim mcgraw s yeah i never heard anything sound so fine mind if i borrow one or two of your lines well i stole it once stole it twice i stole that song and i must confess when i went to court i plead no contest got a big fat lip and two black eyes never should have messed with his copyright yeah i told the judge i had writers block but he hauled my butt away and now it hurts too much to laugh about the song i stole that day when i said hey john michael montgomery won t mind if i steal a song and make it mine all mine like i did so many times with tim mcgraw yeah i never heard anything sound so fine mind if i borrow one or two of your lines so i stole it once stole it twice i stole it from a writer on music row well he just moved to town and he didn t know about ascap sesac or bmi so he might as well kiss his song goodbye eye stole whee 