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Dad took us to see some family, |
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He hadn't seen in twenty years, |
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So we could meet 'em for the first time, |
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Pick some tunes and drink some beers, |
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So we drove down to the home place, |
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There was dinner on the ground, |
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Said Virgil's at the station, |
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Hear that noon train whistle sound, |
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So we went down to the deeper, |
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To pick him up and bring him back, |
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But the train came to screeching halt, |
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With Virgil on the track, |
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Uncle Virgil never came back from the station, |
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We'd gone down to meet him on vacation, |
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Now I guess we'll have to wait, |
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To meet him at the pearly gates, |
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'cos Uncle Virgil never came back from the station, |
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So then we had to go on back, |
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And tell his poor old wife, |
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How down there on the train track, |
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Her dear Virgil lost his life, |
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She did not believe it, |
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Had to see with her own eyes, |
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And to this day, |
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I still can hear the horror in her cries, |
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Oh Virgil probably never knew what hit him, |
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Oh I never really met him, |
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Lord I never will forget him, |
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Uncle Virgil never came back from the station, |
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We'd gone down to meet him on vacation, |
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Now I guess we'll have to wait, |
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To meet him at the pearly gates, |
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'cos Uncle Virgil never came back from the station, |
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Uncle Virgil never came back from the station, |
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We'd gone down to meet him on vacation, |
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Now I guess we'll have to wait, |
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To meet him at the pearly gates, |
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'cos Uncle Virgil never came back from the station, |
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He ate a half a mile of track |
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He had a crosstie through his back, |
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Uncle Virgil never came back from the station. |
