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I Uncle John
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Hank Williams, Jr.
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I'd like to tell a story if you folks wouldn't mind
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But this one is true and it really happened in that little hometown of mine
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There was a kind old colored feller who the folks was always fond
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I don't even remember what his last name was we always just called him Uncle John
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Why I remember when I was little I used to go and see him nearly every day
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Just to sit and hear his stories an' while some time away
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Why he was in his height of Glory when there was children around his feet
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I've seen him laugh right out loud and say Lord God your children show is sweet
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I know in his big wide world there must be kind folks by the bushel
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But I just believe that in this one old man Lord put something special
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Why I've seen times when folks was sick that the old man would walk for miles
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Just to offer his assistance and try to help out a little while
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He was always doin' things like that givin' when he couldn't afford
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Funny thing was though he never did ask for no pay
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Said he was always a workin' for the Lord
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Now Uncle John have the sickness that he didn't know about
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Folks didn't know whether to tell him or just let him live without
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But then one day they decided they oughta let him know
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So they asked Doc boy if he go tell him and he said yeah he'd go
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He found old John sittin' in his homemade rockin' chair
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Thumbin' thru a worn out Bible and readin' little scriptures here and there
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The Doc was scared and he was nervous cause he didn't know quite where to start
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Don't you know his conscience fought him he come to break the old man's heart
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But he gathered up his courage and he found the words to say
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Uncle John the Lord's comin' and he's gonna take you away
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Why there must've been a choir of angels started singin' in that old man's ears
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For a great big smile come on him and his eyes broke out in tears
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And he said why Doctor boy that's the most glorious news I ever heard
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I've been livin' almost eighty five years now just to hear them blessed words
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Now to know that he's finally callin' me to leave this earthly sod
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Why Doc I've just been livin' this old life so's I can get to meet my God
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