Barney chords by Mac McAnally

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Verse 1
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Barney
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came to the gossip bench
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and said I barbecued a dog
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On a tractor axle yesterday
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down at the dump yard
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And nobody looked surprised
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if they was listening at all
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Cause when you're old to look surprised,
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Bm 
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you have to try real hard
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And they don't, and they won't
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Because they tried before
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And they were just ignored
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By everything and everyone
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They tried
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Barney told some jokes
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and  kept them grinning
for a while
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Especially all the ones
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they'd heard before
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And when he left they all
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said good old
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Barney sure can raise a smile
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And then they wondered to themselves
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what am I smiling for
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And then they don't,
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maybe they just won't
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But they all smiled before,
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and now there's nothing more
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To laugh about,
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so they go without a smile
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Bm 
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Barney gets around to  be
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as old as all the rest
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He's the only one that seem
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s to keep on tryin'
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Bm 
And he still drinks and tells tall tales
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And hunts and fishes with the best
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While the others sit around and say
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It's time to die
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And won't
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Anyway they don't
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I guess they've lived so long
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That they just go on
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Cause they was

Verse 2

raised that way.

What a price to pay to live.

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Verse 3

Oh, I missed your family

and church today.

Verse 4

Forty years ago, I looked a lot like you.

Verse 5
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Sit down, son,
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help us pass the time of day.
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Lord knows there ain't much, else to do
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Good Lord knows there's
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nothin' else to do
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Barney died last week,
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they said he'd drunk himself to death
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The church ladies said
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we're better off without him
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They said he finished his last
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and his biggest yarn
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When he drew in his last breath
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And mama told me if I start
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to feelin' bad
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About it, don't
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Your grandpa won't
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You know he thought before
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He said thinkin'
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Is nothin' more than killin' time
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And time don't matter anymore
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Oh, I missed your family in church today
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Have you heard who's running round?
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Well, you know who
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The light's on at the funeral home
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Who passed away
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The Lord knows there ain't much
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Nothing else to do
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The good Lord knows there's
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nothing else to do
Em 