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David Allen Coe
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On Sunday after church there'd always be a picnic
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There'd be kinfolks callin' until dawn
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Me I'd play the guitar and my Uncle Merle would sing
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And grandpa he'd play that fiddle all night long
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Now the women folk they would work out in the kitchen
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You could smell that food for miles and miles around
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Paw he was prayin' my brother Jack would bring him down some moonshine
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Just so's that he could warsh those viddle down
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As soon as all the kids got tired of playin' horseshoes
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Mama she'd call me over to her side
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You know she'd say I'd like to take some pictures
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You could see her face light up with pride
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And then she'd bring out that worn out family album
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Its faded pictures some with corners torn
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She'd laugh and poin and tell me funny stories
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And look she'd say why that's the day that you were born
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And I'd sit and reminisce each picture with her
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And I'd listen to her laughter and her sighs
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But underneath I knew how much I'd hurt her
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For I'd put teardrops in my mama's eyes
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In my mama's eyes I've never done a wrong thing
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I was still a baby in my mama's eyes
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That old family album she'll keep on her night stand
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Right next to the Bible until the day she dies
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Through all those years in prison she stuck by me
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And she came to visit anytime she could
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Well I remember at my trial when she testified she loved me
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And she told the judge I'd always been so good
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Then later through the fame she watched me blossom
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From just a local country singer to a great big star
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She listened to all my records for the hidden meanings
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And she came to hear me sing in all those dim lit bars
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And she read all the things they wrote about me
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But she knew deep in her heart that it was lies
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No she don't hide her head in shame when someone says my name
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You'll find no teardrops in my mama's eyes
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In my mama's eyes...
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Right next to the Bible until the day she dies
David Allan Coe- If that ain't country
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