Key: Eb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I sat and got stoned
With a man who never told
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Said the death of a good man
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Don't really matter
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if he ain't got no friends and no kin
And old four, my boy fought in Fallujah
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Just like I went and fought back in nine
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But I made it home
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Some bastard shot him
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and he died over there in the sand
Said the cancer came back,
about a month ago
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After two years of leavin' me alone
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And my wife passed back in December
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Since then I've been here on my own
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Sang like a Pentecostal choir
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Said he always done right by that woman
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call him a liar
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He'd dream of that lost promised land
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Said it looked like back home in Virginia
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But he'll never see them old hills again
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I blame it all on the booze
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And I blame it on the fella
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Sittin' up in heaven
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Givin' me the right to choose
He said, I reckon I'll die on a Tuesday
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And I hope the sun's gonna shine
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And I can't take it with me
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So I'll drink it right here
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My whiskey, my beer and my wine
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Sang like a Pentecostal choir
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Said he always done right by his mama
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And ain't no man could call him a liar
But some nights when
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He'd dream of that lost promised land
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Looked like back home in Virginia
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He said, I'll never see them old hills again
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And I'd sit at the bar while he's talking
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Just like me and him was old friends
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And promised I'd always remember
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The life of a good man
Now on each side of Nashville I sit
And I get stoned you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Abm Ab Bbsus4 Bb...
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