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16 Shells From A 306
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Tom Waits
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Tom Waits: Vocal
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Stephen Taylor Arvizu Hodges: Drums
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Larry Taylor: Acoustic bass
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Fred Tackett: Electric guitar
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Victor Feldman: Brake drum, bell plate, snare
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Joe Romano: Trombone
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I plugged 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
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and a Black Crow snuck through
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a hole in the sky
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so I spent all my buttons on an
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old pack mule
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and I made me a ladder from
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a pawn shop marimba
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and I leaned it up against
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a dandelion tree
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And I filled me a sachel
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full of old pig corn
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and I beat me a billy
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from an old French horn
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and I kicked that mule
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to the top of the tree
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and I blew me a hole
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'bout the size of a kickdrum
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and I cut me a switch
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from a long branch elbow
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Chorus
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I'm gonna whittle you into kindlin'
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Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
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whittle you into kindlin'
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Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six
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Well I slept in the holler
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of a dry creek bed
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and I tore out the buckets
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from a red Corvette, tore out the buckets from a red Corvette
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Lionel and Dave and the Butcher made three
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you got to meet me by the knuckles of the skinnybone tree
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with the strings of a Washburn
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stretched like a clothes line
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you know me and that mule scrambled right through the hole
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Repeat Chorus
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Now I hold him prisoner
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in a Washburn jail
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that stapped on the back
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of my old kick mule
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strapped it on the back of my old kick mule
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I bang on the strings just
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to drive him crazy
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I strum it loud just to rattle his cage
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strum it loud just to rattle his cage
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Repeat Chorus
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