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She was from North Louisiana in the town of Mer Rouge
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I fell in love in a week or two it didn?t take long to love a girl like that
We were barely ten in the cotton fields playing horseshoe with the colored kids
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I tried to kiss her she grabbed a baseball bat
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Waiting on June, I hope she comes to see me
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Waiting on June, I can't take this feeling
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Waiting on June, I pray to God she?ll love me one of these days
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I hope I find my way waiting on June
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I went off in 42? to fight those boys and pay my dues
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Her wallet picture kept my spirits high
Charley Boy died in my arms, he saw Jesus I saw blood
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It soaked her wallet picture that cold night
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I told my best friend Charley I would kiss his girl goodbye
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He made me promise I?d go home and make Miss June my wife
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Shaking like a drunk old fool I hopped off of that plane
Em D Cadd9
And I ran home to ask her in the rain
Cadd9
Waiting on June, I hope that she says yes
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Waiting on June, in her faded summer dress
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Waiting on June, her daddy shook my hand
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And she lit up the moment I pulled out that silver band
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Waiting on June
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Well we married at the methodist church
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Found a big white cow and a piece of dirt with pecan trees to build our homestead on
Jolynn Becky then Donna then Shelby, our tiny house was a sanctuary
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Laughter filled those rooms all day long
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Waiting on June, she?s putting on her makeup
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Waiting on June, she?s trying to get her hair curled
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Waiting on June, kids listen to me
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You walk on down to Sunday school I?ll be there in 15
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Waiting on June
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The time flew by like they said it would
The kids grew fast and the farm did good
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Mrs. Bertha made our supper everyday
At noon that silver bell would ring
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We?d all say grace and dig on in we always ate together in those days
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Oh one by one those kids went off and found a love their own
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There?s nothing like the joy I knew when they brought their babies home
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We?d play all day in the cotton fields with the dogs I raised up right
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And end in grandma?s kitchen every night
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Waiting on June, honey don't burn the bacon
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Waiting on June, our bellies are a? achin
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Waiting on June, she turns that fork so slow
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And we all had to sit there til the last bite was no more
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Waiting on June
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We were slower than we used to be the nursing home told June and me
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That we?d have separate rooms side by side
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Oh what I?d give for one more night of sleeping with my wife
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Since 45? I've touched her skin in the middle of the night
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I'm lying in this single bed until they cut the lights
Em D Cadd9
That?s when she?ll sneak in and I?ll be fine
Cadd9
Waiting on June so we can kiss goodnight
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Waiting on June I?ll hold her hand so tight
Cadd9
Waiting on June I?ll love her til? I die
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It's bittersweet when love grows old and you really miss your wife
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Waiting on June
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Well they buried me last Tuesday morn
The good lord came and he took me home
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I closed my eyes and quickly went away
Em D Cadd9
But the angels let me see her everyday
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Waiting on June, our mansion is so grand
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Waiting on June, footprints in the sand
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Waiting on June, that?s the story of my life
Em D
Me and Jesus are standing here til? she walks through that light
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Waiting on June