Intro: 

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verse 1: 

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The service went the way it should have gone no one talked to loud or cried too long except your momma's new  

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boyfriend. He went on and on and on about the country and the hero you'd become. 

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Well Just about then a truck backfired and all the boys they flinched their heads. Yea it choked me 

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up I guess. Been home a month now and I still can't get no rest. 



[Refrão]


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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend. 

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Nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did 

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Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American flags in the wind. 

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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend 


Harmonica Break: 
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verse 2: (you will have to figure out the timing on that third line, he crams a lot of words in) 

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Barbecue grills and lawnmowers kids on four-wheelers ice cream trucks Yea they buried you on a  

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Saturday, Georgia lost to Tennessee you would have liked that I know 

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Afterwards we went to OCharleys and your mommas boyfriend got drunk saying it should of been me well I wish it 
   
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was, him I mean so I went home and got drunk and watched the TV 



[Refrão]


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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend. 

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Nothing much to say except sorry it turned out like it did 

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Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American flags in the wind. 

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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend