Holiday chords by
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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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The in- laws are waiting

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the games have begun

Verse 2

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The cell phone keeps ringing

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?don?t answer it hon?

Verse 3

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The whole thing?s arranged

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just to aggravate Dad

Verse 4

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And it?s am ateur day

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on the old super slab

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The

Verse 5

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kids are strapped down

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like a half load of pipe

Verse 6

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All safe in their car seats

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they fuss and they gripe

Verse 7

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Well you can?t hardly blame ?em it must be a

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bitchCounting the crosses off down in the ditch

Verse 8

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This one?s got flowers,

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this one?s got a wreath

Verse 9

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This one?s got a name

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painted down underneath

Verse 10

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Was the road all iced up,

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were they going too fast

Verse 11

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Here?s five in a circle left

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from the last hol iday

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Verse 12

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Holiday

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Verse 13

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There?s a three-

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trailer rig just a throwin? up spray

Verse 14

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Not legal to run on this kind of a day

Verse 15

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But god damn the smokies

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and the four wheelers too

Verse 16

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Stay offa my bumpers or the same

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goes for you

Verse 17

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There?ll be none for him

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He that wants it the most

Verse 18

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As he hauls it on out to the Oregon coast

Verse 19

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No turkey no gravy no

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Zinfandel wine

Verse 20

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You just stay over right and

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we?ll get along fine

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He?s miss

Verse 21

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ing the football,

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missing the fun

Verse 22

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He?d play with the

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grandkids but he?s off on a run

Verse 23

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And some hat?s on the

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radio singing his song

Verse 24

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But it don?t make a damn

Verse 25

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He?s in for a long holiday

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Verse 26

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Holiday

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Verse 27

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Now

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granny she?s yelling

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She?s

Verse 28

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ready to eat

Verse 29

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She?s havin? conniptions

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?Cause they won?t

Verse 30

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take their seats

Verse 31

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But she?s got ?em all gathered

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now under one roof

Verse 32

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With her camcorder loaded

Verse 33

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She?s gonna get proof

Verse 34

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But do you have to wear that

Verse 35

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Well I just don?t see why

Verse 36

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Please pass the potatoesAw eat

shit and die

Verse 37

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Did you hear about Ellen,

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she?s leaving, you know

Verse 38

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How ?bout those Packers,

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think it?ll snow?

Verse 39

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And the minute it?s over

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they?ll scatter like quail

Verse 40

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Off down the freeway in the teeth of a gale

Verse 41

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Silent and shattered And

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numb to the core

Verse 42

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They count themselves lucky

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They

Verse 43

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got through one more holiday

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Verse 44

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Holiday

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Verse 45

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The highway

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patrolman

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He stands

Verse 46

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in the rain

Verse 47

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He just lets it run down to

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soften the stain

Verse 48

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Of the blood on his pant leg

Verse 49

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From working that wreck

Verse 50

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And he won?t forget it

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In time

Verse 51

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for the next holiday

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Verse 52

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Departing Chicago at 9:52

Verse 53

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In clean desert camo all baggy and loose

Verse 54

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Sits an Iowa Guardsman

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alone by the gate

Verse 55

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The place sure looked different,

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in 1968

Verse 56

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When he traveled with mom,

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first time on a plane

Verse 57

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To visit some kin,

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he?s forgotten their names

Verse 58

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But he remembers the soldiers,

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still in their teensIn their spit polished boots and their pressed army greens

Verse 59

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With the creases so sharp,

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and their faces so smooth

Verse 60

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But their eyes looked so heavy,

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he wondered how they could move

Verse 61

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Now he?s got that same look,

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like his insides are black

Verse 62

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He?s in his mid forties and he has to go backAnd he

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can?t even smoke while he waits for his plane

Verse 63

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The uniform?s different,

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but the mission remains

Verse 64

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To do like they tell you,

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don?t make a fuss

Verse 65

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Why?s not an issue,

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so don?t think too much

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You just do what

Verse 66

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you have to,

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shut up and drive

Verse 67

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If you come apart later,

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well at least you?re alive

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You can get

Verse 68

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you some help,

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you can deal with it then

Verse 69

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And life will be better,

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?til it happens again

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Verse 70

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?Cause there?s something inside us that won?t let us beIn

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stalks through our days ?til it?s too dark to see

Verse 71

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And it?s damn near as deadly

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as Texans on ice

Verse 72

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Lord don?t they beat all

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Y?all

Verse 73

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have a nice holiday

Outro 1

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