| I asked my dad how did he quit smoking
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| He said, «Son one day I saw you tokin» on a
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| Half smoked cigarette, he left laying by his tools
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| He said I couldn’t have been more than nine or ten
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| When I looked at him with a cat eating grin, and said
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| «Look at me daddy, I’m the Marlboro man, just like you.»
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| I did my best to step in every footprint daddy made
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| I’d stretch my legs as far as they’d go
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| Chase after him and say
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| With you daddy, take me with you daddy
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| Everywhere you’re going to, I just wanna be with you
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| Right with you daddy, don’t leave me daddy
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| Don’t you know that’s right where I belong
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| Six weeks shy of twenty-one
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| Daddy called and said I got some bad news son
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| Doctor says I ain’t got very long and
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| I ain’t told your mama yet
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| I said, «Daddy I’ll be on the next flight home»
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| That ain’t the kind of news you ought to break alone
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| I didn’t break down till I hung up the phone
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| Damn them cigarettes
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| He put his big old arms around me
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| The moment I stepped off the plane
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| He said, «Son you didn’t have to come» |
| All that I could say
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| With you daddy, take me with you daddy
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| Everywhere you’re going to, I just wanna be with you
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| Right with you daddy, don’t leave me daddy
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| Don’t you know that’s right where I belong
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| Daddy wasn’t conscious the last three days of his life
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| But I stayed there right beside his bed
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| And I cried like a baby, but I knew he’d be all right
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| When he smiled and whispered, «Oh my God»
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| Reached out his hand and said
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| With you daddy, take me with you daddy
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| Everywhere you’re going to, I just wanna be with you
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| Right with you daddy, don’t leave me daddy
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| Don’t you know that’s right where I belong |