Yeah you should listen to the song while reading. It will make more sense.
Jason Boland - The Bourbon Legend

I you think about it you know what sort of mark you will leave. And that is even if you won’t leave any mark at all. I got thinkin’ about this because of a song. Yeah I know it’s hard to imagine but bear with me. I was digging on The Bouron Legend today and started thinkin’ about how we each have our own legends. Mine is kind of fun to be honest. I know how my friends see me by what they call me to do with them and for what they think they can count on me for.

I get called to go drinkin’ or go to shows. I get relied on to have people’s back in a fight. I get called for parties and to go to karaoke. I get called very rarely for relationship problems.

I guess I can relate to the bourbon legend idea a whole lot. I have friends that tell stories about me that never went down, stories that went down a whole lot different, and stories that are true. The thing that seems odd to me about this is that people tell stories about me. It’s not just one or two people it’s a bunch of my friends. I tell stories about myself but that is because I like to tell stories. I tell stories about other people as well. My friends all tell stories about me and frequently to people I have never met. These people meet me and relate the stories back to me. I am not a legend of any great proportion but there is an aspect of legend to my life through these stories. I don’t correct the wrong ones and I guess I maybe should but to be frank I enjoy seeing where they go with this me that is not me.

According to my friends, and most of this may or may not be true, and I ain’t bragging just relatin’, I am someone you want on your side in a fight, someone you don’t want to be in hand of poker with, someone who can drink superhuman amounts of beer, jaeger, and or whiskey, someone who knows everyone, someone who is there when you need them, someone who puts his family first and still makes time to party, someone who is crazy, someone who is able to fix your computer over the phone. I don’t mind this reputation. I also have a bad reputation amongst some crowds and that’s fine as well. Our reputations are usually self made and the good Lord knows I am no saint.

I guess I am amused by the dichotomy. The more I think about it the more I realize I am really a love him or hate him kind of guy. I don’t know a single person who is ambiguous about me. It’s kind of fun. It’s also kind of hard to live up to the reputation that proceeds me at times. I almost cringe when I hear “Oh you’re the Rodeo Clown! I have heard so much about, let me buy you a drink”. And that’s no hyperbole. The nickname changes depending on the crowd but someone is always buying me a drink and wanting to hear a story. I guess I am happy to be entertaining for the most part.

The only regret I have about the Jaeger Legend thing that seems to be going on is the sad fact I haven’t been able to put my stories to music. I can tell them like they are campfire stories and do so with a bard’s tongue at times but I can’t seem to make lyrics out of them. So I have to use other people’s music as my soundtrack. Such is the life of a Jaeger Legend.