Taking down your neighbor won't take you any higher
I burned my own damn finger poking someone else's fire
I've never gotten taller making someone else feel small

If you ain't got nothing nice to say don't say nothing at all

Just hoe your own row and raise your own babies

Smoke your own smoke and grow your own daisies
Mend your own fences and own your own crazy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy

Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy

Nobody's perfect, we've all lost and we've all lied

Most of us have cheated the rest of us have tried
The holiest of the holy even slip from time to time
We've all got dirty laundry hanging on the line


So hoe your own row and raise your own babies
Smoke your own smoke and grow your own daisies

Mend your own fences and own your own crazy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy


Pouring salt in my sugar won't make yours any
Pissing in my yard ain't gonna make yours any greener

I wouldn't know about the rocks in your shoes
So I'll just do me and honey you can just do you


So hoe your own row and raise your own babies
Smoke your own smoke and grow your own daisies
Mend your own fences and own your own crazy

Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy
Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy