Present Company - Janis Ian

Used to drive a pipeline

From here to Blind Man’s Bend

Tried and ride the main line

I went there with my friends

I like to be together

I like to be alone

Yes, and what I like best

Is I like it like this

And I stay with you at home

Enjoy the present company

Eat some grits and hominy

Couldn’t get much better for me

I enjoy your company… ooh…

Used to drive an ocean liner

Sunk in '52

Off the coast of Indochina

Yes, I sunk there, too

Frost on the jewel glass windows here

Is ringing in the dawn, my dear

Spring is busting out of my ears

I wish that I was home

Enjoy the present company

Eat some grits and hominy

Couldn’t get much better for me

I enjoy the company… ooh…

You can wave a banner

I don’t mind if you do

I’m running back to Louisiana

I’m gonna drink that mountain dew

Used to be a loner

And I’d run the highway tolls

What I run now is I’m running anyhow

And I stay with you at home

So joy to the present company

Joy to the grits and hominy

And a joy to getting better for me

I enjoy the company… ooh…