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Date of issue: 07.05.2012
Record label: Bossier City
Song language: English
Before The Devil Knows We're Dead |
Well he was pushing 80, but he acted 22 |
He could laugh and drink just like his grandchildren would do |
There was square hay on the meadow, second cutting of the year |
Well his summer work was over once they got the pasture cleared |
They were drinking on the big bluff across the river from the field |
Well he walked up to the edge and threw a stone in and he kneeled |
And he looked down at the water, he said boys I’m going in |
They were cheering when he jumped but he did not come up again |
Well raise another round boys and have another glass |
Be thankful for today knowing it will never last |
Still lets leave the world laughing when our eulogies are read |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
Well it was 20 after midnight, they were going 85 |
She was barely out of high school wanting bad to feel alive |
Just a two lane piece of blacktop, a snakey stretch of road |
Well the wind blew through the wing vents, it was clear and fresh and cold |
Well the driver killed the headlights and he put the throttle down |
When they hit the railroad crossing they were five feet off the ground |
Just a-screaming through the midnight 'til they came down again |
Well the front tire hit a bar ditch, they went end over end |
Well raise another round boys and have another glass |
Be thankful for today knowing it will never last |
Still lets leave the world laughing when our eulogies are read |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
Well I’m twenty eight years old now, I was born in '84 |
And I’ve been free as I can be and I won’t ask for anymore |
So let the fiddle play a hoedown after I’ve drawn my last breath |
Well tell everyone I know that I loved them all to death |
Well raise another round boys and have another glass |
Be thankful for today knowing it will never last |
Still lets leave the world laughing when our eulogies are read |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
May we all get to heaven 'fore the devil knows we’re dead |
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