Key: A major
Intro 1
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G
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Absus4
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Verse 1
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Everyone knows him as old folks
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E
and as good as his world,
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that's why everybody loves him so.
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Always leaving his spoon in the coffee,
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puts his napkin up under his chin.
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it's so mellow it's ripe,
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Cm
C
but you needn't be ashamed of him.
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In the evening after supper,
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what stories he would tell
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for Lincoln that day
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Em
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Am
D
Oh, I know that one so well,
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don't quite understand about old folks
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Did he fight for the blue or the gray?
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For he's so diplomatic and so democratic
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We always let him have his way
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Absus4
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Bbm
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We always know where to find old folks
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When there's some little chore he can do
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At the old livery stable whenever he's able
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A
Pitchin' the shoes with
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D
Lord knows who
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Then he meets the late train at the station,
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While they're sorting the mail,
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every night without fail,
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he's sneaking a little nip or two.
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Every Friday he'll
on Buzzard's Lake
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So then we warm up the steak
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Or someday there'll
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be no more old folks
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What a lonely old town this will be
Children's voices at play
will be still for a day,
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The day that they take old folks away.
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