Johnny Cash – Route 1 Box 144 (Guitar)

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His dying barely made the morning paper

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And they summed it up in twenty words or more

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Killed in action leaves wife and baby

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At Route 1 Box 144

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He grew up on a little farm just a couple of miles out of town

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As a boy he worked in his daddy's field

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And when his daddy could spare him, he hired out to the neighbors

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For whatever they could pay him, he was thought of as just average a good boy

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Nothing more the average amount of friends

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He married his high school sweetheart

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They brought a little plot of ground

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Couple of miles out of town on a mailbox it said

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Route 1 Box 144

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Well back in town there were very few people that really knew him

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Because he hardly ever came to town

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Except for maybe on Saturdays of course the usual crew was always there

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But he didn't spent a lot of times with the usual crew, he took care of his business

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Bought what he had to have or could afford for his family and went back to his little farm

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With a baby on the way he went to the army and it was a short while

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That the news came that he was killed in action

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His body was sent back on a plane and then by train

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And then they brought the body from the train station to Route 1 Box 144

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He never did great things to be remembered

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He'd never been away from home before

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But you'd've thought that he was president or something

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At Route 1 Box 144