| Oh, well, he’s been collecting since the age of nine
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| Every shiny bullet that he could find
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| Built himself a house with the wooden floors
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| Put the shiny bullets in a chest of drawers
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| Well, his wife’s long gone and the kids are grown
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| The trees, they fall down on their own
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| Memories fade like an old slideshow
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| But the bullets still shine like coins in the snow
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| Well, one day he took himself into town
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| When the men with the truck, well, they came around
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| They took the television and the gun from the wall
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| Oh, and almost every bullet from the chest of drawers
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| Oh, no, oh
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| Well, he came back home, found the house in a mess
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| Run into the bedroom and the old brown chest
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| Well, he didn’t care much for the VCR
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| But he cried for the space where the bullets were
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| Well, the men took the truck down into town
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| And they sold all the silver they had found
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| But they couldn’t sell the bullets 'cause they weren’t live rounds
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| So they dug a big hole, put the bullets in the ground
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| Oh-oh-oh, no, oh-oh, I…
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| Well, he doesn’t leave the house much anymore
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| 'Cause the men are gonna come like they did before
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| And he’ll hold onto the three or four
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| Bullets that they left in the chest of drawers
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| Well, the bullets that they left in the chest of drawers |