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He was there when I started, in Knoxville, Tennessee
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Opening for Patty Loveless, November of '93
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Full of friends, mom, and uncle Butch
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And the crowd was really small
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He'd say I was a scared kid, if this bus could talk
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Some nights we'd dance with the devil
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Some nights we'd pray to the Lord
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Between vibrant passes and margarita glasses
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He was never really bored
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We were starry eyed dreamers, bouncing off the wall
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And all the stories he could tell, if this bus could talk
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He'd seen pool halls in Texas
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And every corndog county fair
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Girls that we'd make cry, some crowds that didn't care
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When Bobby rolled us down in 'Bama
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He kept rocking through it all
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All the stories he could tell
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If this bus could talk
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Late night conversations, full of drunk philosophy
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On politics and religion, football and family
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The lovers that we missed, and the lovers that we lost
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All the secrets he could share, if this bus could talk
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He'd seen Virginia Beach, caught in a hurricane
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Heroes I wish I never met but he ain't naming names
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We learned the code of the road at The Grizzly Rose
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Then we had a ball
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All the stories he could tell
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If this bus could talk
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Many years of summers, and I hope it never ends
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Been down so many highways, full of twists and turns and bends
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We caught lightning in a bottle, somehow we survived it all
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All the stories he could tell, if this bus could talk
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As I leave the stage, still high from your applause
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He'd tell you that I love you
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If this bus could talk
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If this bus could talk
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If this bus could talk
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If this bus could talk