everyone teared him
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the coward of the county
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never stood a single time
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he was proved the county wrong
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his mama named and taught him
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the folks just called him yeller
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but something always told me
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they were reading taught me wrong
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only ten years old when daddy died in prison
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i looked out the tommy cause it was my brother son
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i still recall
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the final words my brother said to tommy
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son my life is over but yours has just begun
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promise my son not to do the things i've done
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walk away from trouble if you can
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it won't mean a week if you turn the other cheek
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i hope you're old enough to understand
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son you don't have to fight to be a man
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someone for everyone and time is love
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was becky
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in her arms he didn't have to prove he was a man
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one day while he was working
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the gatlin boys came calling
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they took turns of becky
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and there was three of them
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tommy opened up the door and saw his becky crying
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the touring dress
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the shattered look was more than he could stand
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he reached above the fireplace
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took down his dad paint a picture
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as tears fell on his daddy's face
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he hurt these words again
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promise me son not to do the things i've done
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walk away from trouble if you can
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it won't mean a week if you turn the other cheek
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i hope you're old enough to understand
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son you don't have to fight to be a man
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forgotten boys just laughed at him
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when he walked in the foreign
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one of them got up and made him
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halfway across the floor
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when tommy turned around they said
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hey look how yellows leaving
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you could've heard a pin drop when tommy stopped
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block the door
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twenty years across
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he's bottled up inside him
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wasn't holding nothing back
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he let them have it all
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when time he left the barroom
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not a getting boy was standing
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he said this one's for begging
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as we watched the last one fall
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and i heard him say
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i promised you dead
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not to do the things you've done
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i walk away from trouble when i can
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now please don't think i'm weak
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i didn't turn the other cheek
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papa i sure hope you understand
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sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man
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everyone considered him
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the coward of the county
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