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The service went the way it should have gone |
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No one talked too loud or cried too long |
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'Cept your mama's new boyfriend |
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He went on and on while they laid you in the ground |
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Right about then a truck backfired |
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And all the boys they flinched their heads |
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Yeah that shook me up I guess |
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I been home a month now and I still can't get no rest |
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend |
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With nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did |
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21 guns for 21 years and American flags in the wind |
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend |
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Barbecue grills and lawnmowers |
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Kids on four-wheelers and ice cream trucks |
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Yeah they buried you on a Saturday |
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Georgia lost to Tennessee, you would have liked that I know |
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Afterwards we went to O'Charleys |
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Your mama's boyfriend got drunk saying it should have been me |
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And I wish it was, him I mean |
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So I went home, got drunk and watched the TV |
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I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend |
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With nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did |
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21 guns for 21 years and American flags in the wind |
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend |
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Hey, there's only one road leads out of this town and it comes right back |
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So I just drive in circles, circles, and I try not to blow my stack |
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Out at the mall and the motor mile, it's just as lonesome as a sea |
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And man the girls round here, the girls round here |
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They're just as hopeless as they used to be |
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So go on and tie another yellow ribbon round the old hackberry tree |
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And tamp the dirt down, y'all go on home now, there ain't nothing here to see |
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend |
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With nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did |
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21 guns for 21 years and American flags in the wind |
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend |
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I'm just standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend |
