| They say he came out singing the moment he was born
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| And he could pick that old flat top guitar like a farmer pickin' corn
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| And he’d sneak in those old honky tonks until they’d kick him out
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| And his daddy wonder how he learned all the stuff he sang about
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| He sang songs about dogs, songs about drinking
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| Songs about mamas and trains
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| Songs about heart broke country boys
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| Standin' out in the rain
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| Songs about dancehall beauty queens worth getting into a fight
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| Songs about nothing better to do, songs about Saturday night
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| When he turned eighteen he went off to the war
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| His sweetheart wrote him letters she said she’d wait for sure
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| By the time he came back home she was nowhere to be found
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| So he packed his bags hit them honky tonks from town to town
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| Well everywhere he went, everybody knew his name
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| But he never got the big hit, he stayed just the same
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| And he moved back to the country when it was time to call it quits
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| Now if you want to hear his music, you have to buy his greatest hits |