| Scatter gun blast, tens in the air
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| Half a million in a burlap sack
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| Y’all have a nice day as we make our way
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| To the caddie in the ally out back
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| See when the times get hard
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| Some good old boys turn to a life a sin
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| We’re like Robin Hood, we’re just twice as good
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| But we can never go home again
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| Well I grew up singing Amazing Grace
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| In a little white church in the woods
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| My momma prayed hard for all her boys
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| But her praying didn’t do a bit of good
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| The sheriff and a banker man came to push us off of our land
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| Now we’re six feet deep
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| And my brothers and me we can never go home again
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| Lord forgive me, I know just what I do
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| I’ll take what I need and then
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| I leave the rest to my momma and you
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| And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven
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| But it’s closer than I’ve ever been
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| God bless an outlaw’s weary soul
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| I can never go home again
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| Sometimes I dream of that old front porch and my momma patching up a quilt
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| While my brothers and me lay around in the shade of that live oak tree on the
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| hill
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| Now it’s hide-out shacks, better watch your back and cover every track of where
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| you’ve been
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| A thousand wrongs will never make it right, I can never go home again
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| Lord forgive me, I know just what I do
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| I’ll take what I need and then
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| I leave the rest to my momma and you
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| And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven
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| But it’s closer than I’ve ever been
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| God bless an outlaw’s weary soul
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| I can never go home again
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| Scatter gun blast tears a ten inch hole
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| Through an empty burlap sack
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| As I say my peace for my brothers and me
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| My whole world fades to black
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| Here’s three new graves underneath the shade of
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| That live oak tree on the hill
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| Overlooking momma’s porch with a fresh coat of paint
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| And a shiny new Coup De Ville
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| Lord forgive me, I know just what I’ve done
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| I’ve been through hell and found myself on the wrong end of a gun
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| And that tin roof cabin might not have been heaven but it’s closer than I’ve
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| ever been
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| God bless an outlaw’s weary soul, I thought I’d never make it home
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| God bless an outlaw’s weary soul, I guess I finally made it home again |