| Call your boys now that the table’s set and shining
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| No one’s seen any of them in many days
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| Call your boys, they shot a buzzard off a Chrysler
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| And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace
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| And you’ll forgive even the time they burned the hen house
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| And ran from you ran to the hills with burning hands
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| Setting sun framed in the doorway right behind you
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| Several chores, surely some lessons left to tell
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| Setting sun, wolves in the hills and now before you
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| Sit your boys each with their shining silverware
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| They’ll bury you under the wood beside the carport
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| They’ll bury you some neon stop along the way
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| Radio fuzz on the fence post by the pasture
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| Long ago Liza and you would dance all day
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| Now you lay buried, the stern and sacred father
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| In sacred earth under the billboard in the rain
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| But one last toast, here’s to the brave who went before us
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| Who died in vain, died in a movie for a dream |