Tom: C
Intro:
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Verse 1:
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The service went the way it should have gone no one talked to loud or cried too long except your momma's new
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boyfriend. He went on and on and on about the country and the hero you'd become.
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Well Just about then a truck backfired and all the boys they flinched their heads. Yea it choked me
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up I guess. Been home a month now and I still can't get no rest.
Chorus:
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend.
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Nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did
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Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American flags in the wind.
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
Harmonica Break:
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Verse 2: (you will have to figure out the timing on that third line, he crams a lot of words in)
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Barbecue grills and lawnmowers kids on four-wheelers ice cream trucks Yea they buried you on a
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Saturday, Georgia lost to Tennessee you would have liked that I know
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Afterwards we went to OCharleys and your mommas boyfriend got drunk saying it should of been me well I wish it
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was, him I mean so I went home and got drunk and watched the TV
Chorus:
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend.
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Nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did
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Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American flags in the wind.
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
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Well there is only one road that leads out of this town and it comes right back
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So I just drive in circles, circles, and I try not to blow my stack.
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Hide at the mall on the motor mile, its just as lonesome as the sea
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Man the girls round here, the girls round here they're just as hopeless as they used to be.
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Verse 3:
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So tie a yellow ribbon round the old hackberry tree and
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tamp the dirt down. You all go on home now, there ain't nothing left here to see
Chorus
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend.
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Nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did
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Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American flags in the wind.
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
