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The Hummingbird
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Darrell Scott
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A farm boy from Kentucky Hills
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Learned to play guitar for his back poarch thrills
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Lean a ladder back chair on a windowsill
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And look out at the stars
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He must have got it up in Michigan
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He and his brothers were speakin' then
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When he moved to Gary he took it with him
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That Gibson Hummingbird guitar
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And oh, how that guitar would ring
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Dad would close his eyes and sing
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Silver Haired Daddy would always bring
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A tear to his eyes
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I was all of five years old
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My brother Don and a kid down the road
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We just did what we was told
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To get outside and play
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Someone wrapped it in a coat
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And we took it to the swamp just to see if it'd float
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But a Hummingbird is not a boat
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And it sank straight away
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When he got home that's when he heard
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What we'd done to that Hummingbird
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And he looked at me and never said a word
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Just went out back to see
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And there it was in all it's mess
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With the cattails and the red wing nests
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And there he laid it down to rest for all eternity
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One of these days you know what I'll do
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Get a Hummingbird guitar and a brother or two
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Underneath a Kentucky moon
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Give him back his childhood dream
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It won't make up for thirty-two years
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And it won't dry up a swamp of tears
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But it's better than a case of beer
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And a fifth of Jim Beam
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