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Introduction:
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Well I was three days short of pullin out Kingsport
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I was headed down to Houston town
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Had my guitar packed in a burlap sack
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For es cortin my country sound
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I bypassed Jackson, bypassed Memphis
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By the time I got to Arkansas
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I'da sold my car and that black guitar
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For anything cool and tall
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So I pulled up to a neon sign on highway forty-nine
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Shut the engine down, took a look around and then I stepped inside
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I asked that bouncer where I was he said son your at Bills
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Honky tonk pickin, line dance kickin, razor back stickin, barbecue chicken
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Laundromat bar and grill
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Well I saw old Bill sittin at the bar
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With a waitress and change machine
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He was throwin' out quarters to a waitress names Starr
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When I asked him if I could sing
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He said, son go ahead if you brought your guitar
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Then he pointed to the back stage door
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He said, we don't like original material
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Un less its been done be fore
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Well I hit the stage like a big wheeled train
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Told the boss man to play in 'C'
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I played the Tennessee Waltz, Kentucky Rain
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And the one about the bird that's free
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That lead guitar was like a chainsaw that fiddle like a power drill
at Bill's
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Honky tonk pickin, line dance kickin, razor back stickin, barbecue chicken
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Laundromat bar and grill
Lead
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Well in the few short minutes I was up on stage
Watched a Biker punch a cowboy's face
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With a perfect view I was witness to
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The des truction of the whole damn place
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It was long necked stems and white fringed hems
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Flyin out of that dodge saloon
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And that me chanical bull was a distant pull
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To the safest place in the room
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Well that punch-drunk cowboy showed his wife
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That his shirt was soaked in beer
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She said, calm down honey have another Lite
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Cause we can wash the shirt right here
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Then the whole place stopped to thank me for bookin my show at Bill's
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Honky tonk pickin, line dance kickin, razor back stickin, barbecue chicken
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Laundromat bar and grill
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At Bill's Honky tonk pickin, line dance kickin, razor back stickin,
barbecue chicken
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Laundromat bar and grill