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The stage is set tonight down in Nashville |
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It's been a long, hard ride into town |
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And thanks to some cowboys and heroes |
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My chance to sing has finally come around |
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The first song I ever sang was Haggard's |
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Momma sang to me, "I Saw the Light" |
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And I'd turn my radio up louder |
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To hear Johnny Cash walk the line |
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Mmmm |
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Ol' Waylon sang the songs about Texas |
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Willie's blue eyes, cryin' in the rain |
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Bocephus sang the songs about Dixie |
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And Lefty taught us, all how to sing |
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Chorus |
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Hats off to hard ridin' cowboys |
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Riding somewhere tonight |
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Hats off to hard ridin' cowboys |
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Wanted, dead or alive |
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Well, Charlie ran the Devil out of Georgia |
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Skynyrd sang of sweet home Alabam' |
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The Allman Brothers taught us how to ramble |
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And the Tucker boys showed us how to jam |
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Chorus |
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Well, the stage is set tonight up in Heaven |
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And Reba's band is there with Patsy Cline |
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And all around there's cowboys and cowgirls |
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And thanks to them, the music's still alive |
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Chorus |
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Hats off to hard ridin' cowboys |
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Flyin' somewhere tonight |
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Hats off to hard flyin' cowboys |
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Wanted, dead or alive |
