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Introduction:
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Me n' Oliver n' Virgil was at the drugstore killin' time,
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when my eyes fell on this magazine.
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and I got To reading this article 'bout sky-divin' and parachutin',
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said jumpin outta air-planes was a thing.
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Now being raised down on the farm and always ready for adventure,
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well I knew that I could find a Way.
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Delmer Gill he's got a parachute and Uncle Harvey's got an air-plane,
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so we called the boys together, today's the day,
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Well I found out too late, what Uncle Harvey called an air-plane
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wuttin' nothin but an engine and a wing.
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and I felt my fear begin to rise as delmer packed the parachute,
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'cuz he tol' me I's doing the right thing,
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Ron Mcloughlin shook my hand and Jd strapped me in the harness
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so Tildon brought a jug n' they passed it 'round.
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So I took one look at that parachute and that whisky and that airplane
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and I turned that bottle up n' I drank it down.
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Well I was Drunker'n Cooter Jones when they poured me in that plane,
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the engine coughed as I Headed for the clouds.
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but I's sober as a judge when Harvey opened up the door
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and I've never known my heart to beat so loud.
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I screamed, :Harvey! I Can't Do this! You and I've known each other a very long time,
you been my uncle all my life, to ask another human being to jump out of an airplane at
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at which point, he kicked me out the door
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and I wrapped my hands around the landing gear.
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and I was holdin' on real good 'til Harvey stepped upon my fingers
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and Virgil heard me scream from way down there.
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well I Thanked God And I thanked Buddha. I thanked Jesus I thanked Judah,
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I thanked Krishna and all the lesser Hindu gods,
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most of all i thanked my good friend Delmer Gill when my parachute finally opened
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and I thought, " Hell There Ain't No Use In Being Afraid!"
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I came crashing through that hen house, I scattered chickens, I broke eggs
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and then I kissed that ground, I fainted dead away.
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Now friends I been in a few battles n' I been shot at once r' twice
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and I damn near been runned over by a train,
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but I never do remember ever being so afraid.
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as the day I jumped from Uncle Harvey's plane