Charley Crockett – The Poplar Tree (Guitar)

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I'm holding my head up

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I'm not gonna cry

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Or tell them that I need her

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And that without her I would die

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I'm not gonna argue

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They won't listen to me

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I'm just gonna stay right here

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Under the poplar tree

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Let me tell you a story

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It happened this way

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It was born out of longing

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In a man that's gone astray

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I've been to the valley

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In the shadow of death

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I've crossed many rivers

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Wearing a scar on my chest

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Can't outrun this heartache?

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A man, he sure can try

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I gave my all to that woman

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Then she turned around and said goodbye

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I was in a high desert

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Dell City was the town

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That's when my luck turned south

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This ol' boy started showin' out

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He killed the clerk and a young girl

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Who was only standin' there

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He looked at me real peculiar

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With the bullets flying through the air

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I lit out in a hurry

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He went out in a hearse

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Heartbroken and wanted

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Couldn't tell you which one of 'em is worse

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He must've been real important

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Cause his posse caught up to me

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I was holding my head up

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When they hung me from a poplar tree

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Yes, they hung me from a poplar tree