Decoration Day

[Intro]
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[Chorus]
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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,
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won't keep you away"
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  It's Decoration Day
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  And I knew the Hill        Boys would 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"

[Verse 1]
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I never knew        how it all got started
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A problem with a 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 'til he just   couldn't walk anymore
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But I  know the caliber in daddy's chest
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I know what Holland Hill drives
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The state let him go,
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        but I guess it was best
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'Cause nobody needs all us Lawson's alive
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[Bridge 1]
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[Verse 2]
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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,
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        but don't dare let him die
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And if you see Holland Hill  run"
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Now I  said,
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"They ain't give us trouble before
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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
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I'll send all the Hill   Boys  to hell yeah..
.

[Bridge 2]
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[Solo 1]
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[Verse 3]
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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,
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   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 the East Tennessee
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And my Daddy got shot        right in front of his house
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He had no one to fall   on but me

[Chorus]
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  It's Decoration Day
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  And I've a mind        to go spit on his grave
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If I  was a Hill,
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        I'd have to put  him away
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And I'd fight 'til the last   Lawson's last living day
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I'd fight 'til the last Lawson's last living day
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I'd fight 'til the last   Lawson's last living day.

[Solo 2]
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[Solo 3]
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[Solo 4]
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[Solo 5]
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[Outro]
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[Fade Out]
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