Chords with lyrics
Intro:
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Verse 1:
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Down over the window
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Come the dazzling sunlit rays
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Through the back alleys, through the blinds,
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Another one of them endless days
Verse 2:
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Honey bees are buzzing
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Leaves begin to stir
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I'm in love with my second cousin
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I tell myself I could be happy forever with her.
Bridge 1:
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I keep listening for footsteps,
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But I ain't ever hearing any
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From the boat, I fish for bullheads
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I catch a lot, sometimes too many
Verse 3:
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A augmentedA summer breeze is blowin',
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A augmentedA squall is setting in.
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Sometimes it's just plain stupid
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To get into any kind of wind.
Interlude 1:
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Verse 4:
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Well, the old men 'round here sometimes they get on
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bad terms with the younger men,
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Old, young - age don't carry weight
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It doesn't matter in the end
Verse 5:
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One of the bosses' hangers-on sometimes comes to call
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At times you least expect,
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Tryin' to bully you, strong-arm you, inspire you with fear.
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It has the opposite effect
Bridge 2:
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There's a new grove of trees on the outskirts of town
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The old one - long gone.
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Timber, two foot six across,
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Burns with the bark still on.
Verse 6:
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They say times are hard,
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If you don't believe it you can follow your nose.
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It don't bother me, times are hard everywhere,
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We will just have to see how it goes.
Interlude 2:
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Verse 7:
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My old man he's like some feudal lord,
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Got more lives than a cat.
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I've never seen him quarrel with my mother even once.
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Things come alive or they fall flat.
Verse 8:
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You can smell the pine wood burnin'
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You can hear the school-bell ring.
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Got to get up near the teacher, if you can
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If you wanna learn anything.
Bridge 3:
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Romeo, he said to Juliet, "You got a poor complexion
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It don't give you an appearance of a youthful touch."
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Juliet said back to Romeo, "Why don't you just shove off
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If it bothers you so much."
Verse 9:
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They all got out of here any way they could -
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Cold rain can give you the shivers.
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They went down the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee,
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All the rest of them rebel rivers.
Interlude 3:
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[Verse 10:
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If you ever try to interfere with me, or cross my path again,
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You do so at the peril of your own life.
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I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound,
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I've seen enough heartache and strife.
Verse 11:
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My grandfather was a duck trapper
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He could do it with just dragnets and ropes
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My grandmother could sew new dresses out of old cloth,
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I don't know if they had any dreams or hopes.
Bridge 4:
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I had 'em once though I suppose
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To go along with all the ring dancing,
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Christmas Carols on all the Christmas Eves
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I left all my dreams and hopes
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Buried under tobacco leaves
Verse 12:
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Not always easy kicking someone out,
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Got to wait awhile, it can be an unpleasant task.
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Sometimes somebody wants you to give something up
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And, tears or not, it's too much to ask.
Outro:
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