Key: E
Introduction:
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Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa
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Tell me a story about those wild, wild days
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Tell me a story about cowboys, Grandpa
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Tell me a story about where you were raised
And he'd say
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Over yonder's where I was born
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Down near the meadow In a plank-board shack
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Times were hard then for honest folks
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But we made up for all the things we lacked
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Didn't have lawmen but we had thieves
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They used to hang them from that oak tree back then
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That's just the way things were back then
Tell me a story about outlaws, Grandpa
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Tell me a story about poor men, Grandpa
Trying to feed their body and souls