Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day (Guitar)

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It's Decoration Day

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And I've a mind to roll a stone on his grave

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But what would he say

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"Keeping me down, boy, won't keep me away"

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It's Decoration Day

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And I knew the Hill Boys that put him away

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But my Daddy wasn't afraid

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He said "We'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day"

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I never knew how it all got started 

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A problem with Holland before we were born 

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And I don't know the name of that boy we tied down 

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And beat till he just couldn't walk anymore

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But I know the caliber in Daddy's chest 

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And I know what Holland Hill drives

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The state let him go but I guess it was best 

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Cause nobody needs all us Lawsons alive

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Daddy said one of the boys had come by 

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The lumber man's favorite son

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He said, "Beat him real good but don't dare let him die"

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And if you see Holland Hill run

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Well I said, "they ain't give us trouble no more 

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That we ain't brought down on ourselves" 

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But a chain on my back and my ear to the floor 

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And I'll send all the Hill Boys to hell, I'll send all the Hill boys to hell

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It's Decoration Day 

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And I've got a family in Mobile Bay 

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And they've never seen my Daddy's grave

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But that don't bother me, it ain't marked anyway

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Cause I got dead brothers in Lauderdale south 

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And I got dead brothers in east Tennessee

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My Daddy got shot right in front of his house 

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He had no one to fall on but me

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It's Decoration Day 

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And I've got a mind to go spit on his grave

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If I was a Hill, I'd have put him away

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And I'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day

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I'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day

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I'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day