(Old Dogs Children and) Watermelon Wine (live 1982) chords by Tom T. Hall
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Verse 1
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How old
do you think I am?
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He said. I said, well, I didn't know.
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He said, you know, I turned sixty -five
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about eleven months ago.
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I was sick in Miami,
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poor and bland, good whiskey guy.
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When this old gray black gentleman
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was cleaning up the land.
There wasn't anyone around
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except this old man.
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And the guy who ran the bar
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was watching Einstein turn key
Thought he'd find it
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He sat down and he opened his mind
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On old dogs and children
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and watermelon wine
Have you ever had a drink
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of watermelon wine,
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he asked
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They told me all about it,
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boy, didn't answer back
He said there ain't but three things
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in the world worth the
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solitary
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I want to thank Drew Sexton,
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playing piano with me all year,
he's a gentleman and a scholar
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and I've enjoyed working with him,
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Willie Os mond on the fiddle,
Jimmy Morrow, my road manager
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who's put up with a lot of hard times
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and Terry Buttram
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who's kept me in time
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all these months
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and Leon Watson
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backing me up
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my good friend and gambling
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partner Ray Edwards
and the storytellers
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they've been great this
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I've had a good time with him
and we'll be back on the road next year
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and we're gonna wear
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it all out again,
sing all these songs one more time.
He said, you know,
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women think about their selves.
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When men poking around,
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they and friends are hard to
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find when they discover
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He said, son,
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I tried it all when I was young.
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And in my natural planet,
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now it's old dogs and children
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and watermelon wine.
He said, you know, old dogs,
they care about you.
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Oh, even when you
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make mistakes.
God bless little children
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while they're still too young to hear.
And when he moved away,
found my pen
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an d copied down the line.
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Mild old dogs and children
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and watermelon wine
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Well I had to catch a
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plane up to At lanta
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that next day
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As I left for my room,
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I saw him picking up a chain.
That night, I dreamed in peaceful
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sleep of shady sum mertime,
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of old dogs and children
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and watermelon wires.
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Tom T. Hall, live from Gillies,
brought to you by Schlitz.
Behind every Schlitz,
there's a man who knows his beer.
Live from Gillies
was recorded live
and was produced by Jim Duncan,
in association with Gilley
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Communications.
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David and Sandy Brokaw, producers.
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Associate producer, Robert Young.
Technical director, Michael Jordan.
Location audio by Burt Frelow,
Mike Taylor,
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and Dale Na gel.
Live from Gillies
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is a presentation of Westwood One.
Executive producer, Norm Pattis.
This is Jim Duncan,
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inviting you to join us here next week
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when we present Little Miss Dynamite,
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Brenda Lee.
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Live from Gillies!
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(Old Dogs Children and) Watermelon Wine (live 1982)
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