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Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa
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Tell me a story about those wild, wild days
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Tell me a story about cowboys, Grandpa
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Tell me a story about where you were raised
And he'd say
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Over yonder's where I was born
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Down near the meadow In a plank-board shack
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Times were hard then for honest folks
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But we made up for all the things we lacked
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Didn't have lawmen but we had thieves
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They used to hang them from that oak tree back then
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That's just the way things were back then
Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa
Trying to find a place that's safe
Tell me a story about young men, Grandpa
The kind that sometimes make mistakes
And he'd say
Over yonder lies an old headstone
Of a man who tried to outrun his past
He settled down here and he made a home
But he was wanted alive or dead
Saw my first lawman when I was thirteen
He shot my daddy down in front of me back then
That's just the way things were back then
SOLO, Kicks A.. Aaron Wall is the MAN!!
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Tell me a story about poor men, Grandpa
Trying to feed their body and souls
Tell me a story about farmers, Grandpa
Who cleared the land where the dogwoods grow
And he'd say
Over yonder's where I would plow
We scratched a living among these hills
We raised peanuts and we raised cows
But I made my living from a whiskey stillThey sent a lawman when I was eighteen
I tried to run but they arrested meI spent a year and a day in the county jail
That's where I was
When the market fell
Another good little SOLO
Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa.