Back Upon an old dirt road
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Next to a swamp full of toads
was a slanted wood shack
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with three little kids and a momma
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papa died in '63
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left little jenny and me
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to plant those 'taters and
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pull up another tomorrow
Chorus:
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Rocky Mountain Music
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Fills my memory with you
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Rocky mountain music
G D A -F.D.Em
v1.Papa can I hear you playin for me.
v2.momma can I hear you singin to me.
v3.brother can I hear you callin me.
v2
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Little brother was never quite right
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he used to sit on the floor in the sunlight
playin with the dust
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that danced on the beams in the window
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sister had to cook and clean
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cuz momma she got sick and lean
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sometimes I think she just got that way missin poppa
v3
Em G
well every thing has changed today
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little brother he was taken away
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sister, she married a soldier and lives in Toledo
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And me I'm in a Nashville bar
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and I've never been so far.
from that old gravel road
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and the rivers that run through my mem'ry