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Each knife that's in the kitchen made of d**gs out by the stairs and there were empty |
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Rooms the devil looms and tries to keep you there Talked hours |
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About nothin in the corner by himself with the rifle and a bible screamin |
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Nobody helps Tell me why chickahominy |
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I saw crosses on the road sir just as far as I can see and they were crooked hangin |
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Carpenters pumpin electricity No one stopped to take em down |
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They all let him do his job cause he kept lights on in the houses and brought sinners back to God |
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Tell me why should I believe you when I've been makin it along this road just fine |
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Tell me why should I believe you when all I see along these roads are powerlines |
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Starin at the sunlight won't bring him back to life Send a letter to his mother |
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He had children and a wife But to hordes of rats and roaches and the homes |
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That held us all he'll remember us tomorrow from the hymns that haunt these halls |
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Tell me why chickahominy |
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He's alive in the morning with a firey fork and tongue |
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Keep mistaking truth from virtue and then blamed it on his son |
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I was held up on the highway by a crooked farmer's wife |
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Who learned to shoot from her husband and then started her own life |
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Tell me why should I believe you when I've been makin it along this road just fine |
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Tell me why should I believe you when all I see along these roads are powerlines |
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Tell me why Oh tell me why |
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Chickahominy |
