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Author: AgProv

Sep 15th 2012 at 5:15:52 PM

Music: the Kenny Rogers song ''Coward of the County''

-->''Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done.
-->Walk away from trouble if you can.
-->Now it won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.
-->I hope you're old enough to understand:
-->Son, you don't have to fight to be a man.''

-->''The Gatlin boys just laughed at him when he walked into the barroom.
-->One of them got up and met him halfway 'cross the floor.
-->When Tommy turned around they said, "Hey look! ol' yellow's leavin'."
-->But you coulda heard a pin drop when Tommy stopped and locked the door.''

-->''Twenty years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him.
-->He wasn't holdin' nothin' back; he let 'em have it all.
-->When Tommy left the barroom not a Gatlin boy was standin'.
-->He said, "This one's for Becky," as he watched the last one fall.
-->And I heard him say,''

-->''I promised you, Dad, not to do the things you done.
-->I've walked away from trouble when I can.
-->Now please don't think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek,
-->And Papa, I sure hope you understand:
-->Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man.''

-->''Ev'ryone considered him the coward of the county.''