He was standing in the rubble of an old farmhouse outside Birmingham
When some on the scene reporter stuck a camera in the face of that old man
He said “tell the folks please mister, what are you gonna do
Now that this twister has taken all that’s there to you”
The old man just smiled and said “boy let me tell you something, this ain’t nothing”
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You can see it from the river
To the top of white pine ridge
Burning like a summer sun
A bunch of rednecks getting half lit
There’s mud-covered trucks and suvs
Cranking out hank and ac/dc
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Seems like almost everyday
Trouble carries us away
And sometimes when we hurt we all need to be saved
Every time I’m in to deep
Someone always rescue me
Its like heavens sending down the help that I need
Life like a chain sometimes it breaks
We all need a hand when we fall from grace
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[Verse 1:]
There’s a place I go where love grows wild,
Forever seems to go for miles,
Even when it rains the sun is shinin’,
The dogwoods always in full bloom,
On my tiptoes I can touch the moon,
I’m eye to eye with clouds with silver linings,
It’s like no place on Earth
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It took a bully riding my back to make me mad enough to fight
And a summer with my granddad to find out what hard work’s like
It took that football coach in high school to make me tougher than the rest
That first beer with my daddy to put that first hair on my chest
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That secondhand junkyard heap
Was freedom with two bucket seats
With two grand on the windshield in shoe polish
I had a stash of summer cash
From cleanin’ pools and cuttin’ grass
Gave the man that coffee can and I bought it
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[1st Verse:]
There’s a picture of a covered bridge,
with water running under it flowing through my mind,
takes me back in time.
After haulin’ hay all day,
we’d stop by there and drop a tailgate and take a dip,
to cool off a bit.
Blue sky would turn to red off in the West,
We’d tear into a full igloo of Old Milwaukee’s Best
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There’s been times I’ve let my faith run thin
Not been the man I should have been
After all the trouble I’ve been in, I’da gave up on me
I’ve lived hard and I’ve lived fast
Lost things I will never get back
Cause someone to look past all of that
God must really love me
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[Chorus:]
I was raised in the sticks,
That’s where I get my kicks,
Tailgatin’ with my buddies,
Boots and dog and tires all muddy,
Cold drinks chillin’ in the creek,
God’s green earth for my seat,
I Feel at home around a crowd of hicks
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My alarm goes off early,
Can’t afford to be late.
If I don’t get a move on then I won’t get paid.
So I throw back those covers and get my butt out of bed.
Its still dark when im leavin’ so I let my lady sleep.
I know her and them babies are countin on me
To put food on the table and keep this roof over our head.
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We met when I was stationed at Fort Campbell,
Got married in the front yard at your Dad’s,
I played guitar and sang my songs down at the Hatry,
Then one day we settled down to what we have,
We made a picture perfect life together,
Got memories in our head and every room,
One day we’ll be too old to do what we used to do,
But I look forward to lookin’ back with you.
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You can forget what love was wearing
When it walked out your front door
Where you fell down to your knees
And you can forget the kind of suitcase
That was packed out on the sidewalk
While you cried there beggin’ please
But love remembers
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