| When Davey dropped dead the papers said he was a football hero
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| Kids all cried and the rumors died and before he was in the ground
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| Jimmy was up on the strip job sucking another one down
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| When Vicky got out it took about a week to catch the fever
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| Went across town to Doctor Brown begging for some pain pills
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| Pain pills, a little bit of hurt is surely gonna kill
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| A lot of good people in these here hills
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| Lord won’t you save us from these old pain pills
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| When Hazel Jean died, her mother tried to say it was pneumonia
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| The minister’s wife told a bold-faced lie to protect her daughter’s name
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| When half of the congregation was hooked on the very same thing
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| When Tommy caught wind that his Uncle Tim was about to die from cancer
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| Went to his house and broke the door down trying to steal some pain pills
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| Pain pills, a little bit of hurt is surely gonna kill
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| A lot of good people in these here hills
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| Lord won’t you save us from these old pain pills
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| The girl next door’s on the bathroom floor
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| Thinking 'bout taking her a little bit more
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| Ain’t never been this bad before
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| Had enough of these pain pills, pain pills
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| A little bit of hurt is surely gonna kill
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| A lot of good people in these here hills
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| Oh Lord won’t you save us from these old pain pills |