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Me n' Oliver n' Virgil was in the drugstore killin' time, when my
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eye fell on this magazine.
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I got To reading this article on sky-divin' and parachutes n It said
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jumpin’ outta air-planes is the thing.
[Verse 2]
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Now being raised down on a farm and always ready for adventure,
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I knew that I could find a Way.
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I thought well, Delmer Gill got a parachute and Uncle Harvey's got a plane,
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so I said call the boys together, today's the day,
[Verse 3]
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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. And I could
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feel my a risin’, as Delmer packed the parachute, ‘cause he kept
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telling me I's doing the right thing,
[Bridge]
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[Verse 4]
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Ron Mcloughlin shook my hand and Jd strapped me in the harness
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and Tildon brought a jug n' and passed it 'round.
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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.
[Verse 5]
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Well I was Drunker'n Cooter Jones when they poured me in the plane,
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the engine coughed and Headed for the clouds.
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but I's sober as a judge when Harvey opened up that door
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and I've never known my heart to beat so loud.
[Bridge]
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I screamed, Harvey! I Can't Do it! as 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.
[Verse 6]
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well I Thanked God And Delmer Gill when my parachute finally opened
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and I said, Hell Ain't No Use In Being Afraid!"
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I came crashing through the hen house, scatterin’ chickens, n breakin’ eggs
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and I kissed the ground, I fainted dead away.
[Outro]
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Now friends I‘ve fought some battles n I‘ve been shot at once r' twice
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and I dern near been run over by a train,
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but I can’t remember being any more afraid, than the
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day I jumped from Uncle Harvey's plane
