Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The County
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Eve
ry
one
con
sid
ered
him
54
The
cow
ard
of
the
coun
ty
110
He’d
ne
ver
stood
one
sin
gle
time
221
To
prove
the
coun
ty
wrong
274
His
ma
ma
named
him
Tom
my,
the
folks
just
404
Called
him
yel
low
438
Some
thing
al
ways
told
me
538
They
were
read
ing
Tom
my
wrong.
594
He
was
on
ly
ten
years
old
706
When
his
daddy
died
in
pri
son
758
I
looked
af
ter
Tom
my,
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Cause
he
was
my
broth
er’s
son
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I
still
re
call
the
fi
nal
words
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My
broth
er
said
to
Tom
my
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"Son
my
life
is
o
ver,
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But
yours
has
just
be
gun".
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"Prom
ise
me
son
not
to
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Do
the
things
I’ve
done
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Walk
a
way
from
trou
ble
if
you
can
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It
won’ t
mean
you’re
weak
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If
you
turn
the
oth
er
cheek
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I
hope
you’re
old
en
ough
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To
un
der
stand
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Son,
you
don’t
have
to
fight
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To
be
a
man".
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There’s
some
one
for
ev
ery
one,
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And
Tom
my’s
love
was
Bec
ky
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In
her
arms
he
did
n’ t
have
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To
prove
he
was
a
man
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One
day
while
he
was
work
ing
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The
Gat
lin
boys
came
cal
ling
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They
took
turns
at
Bec
ky
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N’
there
was
three
of
them
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Tom
my
o
pened
up
the
door,
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And
saw
his
Bec
ky
cry
ing
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The
torn
dress,
the
shat
tered
look
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Was
more
than
he
could
stand
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He
reached
a
bove
the
fi
re
place,
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And
took
down
his
dad
dy’s
pic
ture
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As
his
tears
fell
on
his
dad
dy’s
face,
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He
heard
his
words
a
gain.
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"Prom
ise
me
son
not
to
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Do
the
things
I’ve
done
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Walk
a
way
from
trou
ble
3394
If
you
can
3428
It
won’t
mean
you’re
weak
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If
you
turn
the
oth
er
cheek
3590
I
hope
you’re
old
en
ough
to
un
der
stand
3690
Son,
you
don’t
have
to
fight
to
be
a
man".
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The
Gat
lin
boys
just
laughed
at
him
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When
he
walked
in
to
the
bar
room
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One
of
them
got
up
and
met
him
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Half
way
cross
the
floor
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When
Tom
my
turned
a
round
they
said
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"Hey
look
old
yel
low’s
leav
ing"
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But
you
could
ve
heard
a
pin
drop
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When
Tommy
stopped
and
locked
the
door
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Twen
ty
years
of
crawl
ing
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Were
bot
tled
up
in
side
him
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He
would
n’ t
hold
ing
no
thing
back
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He
let
em
have
it
all
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When
Tom
my
left
the
bar
room,
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Not
a
Gat
lin
boy
was
stand
ing
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He
said
this
ones
for
Bec
ky,
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As
he
watched
the
last
one
fall
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N’
I
heard
him
say,
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"I
prom
ised
you
dad
not
to
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Do
the
things
you’ve
done
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I
walk
a
way
from
trou
ble
when
I
can
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Now
please
don’ t
think
I’ m
weak
5428
I
did
n’ t
turn
the
oth
er
cheek
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And
pa
pa
I
sure
hope
you
un
der
stand
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Some
times
you
got
ta
fight
when
you’ re
a
man".
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Eve
ry
one
con
sid
ered
him
5826
The
cow
ard
of
the
coun
ty