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Verse 1
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The
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Reverend had his wife done in by a guy I knew in High School
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He and a friend should do her in and make it look
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like a robbery
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"Here's money son,
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go buy a gun and shoot her in the head
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No one who dies, testifies,
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make sure that she is dead"
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The heathens were paid a thousand
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bucks to eliminate someone
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Plus they were paid five hundred
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more to get themselves a gun
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The guy I knew had a hunting knife,
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"Why bother with a gun?
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She'll still be dead, why sweat details,
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as long as it gets done"
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The Bible said that Jesus
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bled for the sins of the rest of us
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The Rev erend has his wife done in for fifteen
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hundred bucks
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They knocked upon the door and
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said their car broke down
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And asked if they could use the phone for
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a ride back into town
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They stabbed her several times
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and left her there for dead
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Bleeding and crying out and
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gasping for breath
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And they went out the very next night and bragged about it
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The Reverend came home from work
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and found the Mrs. dying
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Life was falling from her grasp but still
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she lay there trying
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No one will ever know what she told
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him or know what he told her
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'Cause the Reverend did his wife in,
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fifteen whacks, fireplace poker
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The headlines screamed out "Brutal Murder,
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small town preacher's wife"
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The crime rocked all of Colbert County
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as each new fact came to light
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It seems the Preacher had a girl
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he counseled on the side
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Now the shit was coming down and she was scared
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to lie
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The preacher came home from the funer
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al and found Policemen waiting
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The hea thens, it seems,
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got coked up and drunk and did a lot of communicating
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Life is cheap for a couple of creeps
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but this here is the smoker
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Their prints were found all around the
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room but not on the fireplace poker
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The Preacher's
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son brought his father home and followed him inside
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Shots rang out in the Tuscumbia night.
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Was he alone when he died?
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"Don't call the son for questioning,
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that bullet was deserved
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Better call it suicide,
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justice has been served"
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Better call it suicide, justice has been served
Outro 1
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