| She came on up from Waycross yeah…
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| From a whiskey swamp and a vagabond clan
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| With her tune in her bucket and her head held high
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| And a book about her grandpa flying the skies
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| She said, Man it ain’t never gonna be the same
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| You know I’ll give ‘em a chance but
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| No one can play like Duane
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| Now it was back in the Fall of ‘71
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| Duane met a flatbed coming home
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| With his song in the charts and his Harley flying through the air
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| Now he was just hitting his stride when the angels wept
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| They said, Man it ain’t never gonna be the same
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| You know we’ll give ‘em a chance but
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| No one can play like Duane
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| We lose the best, we lost the rest, we lose it all along the way
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| We learn to dig down deep, wipe our hands, and walk away from the grave
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| She said, Now, I got a hole that just won’t fix
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| As deep as a sky that won’t be lit
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| The span of a wing that just won’t fly
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| And I been carrying this tune since the angels cried
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| She said, Man it ain’t never gonna be the same
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| You know I’ll give ‘em a chance but
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| No one can play like Duane |