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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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A farmboy from Kentucky Hills
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Learned to play guitar for his
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backpoarch thrills
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Lean a ladderback chair
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on a windowsill
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And look out at the stars
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He must have got it up in Michigan
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He and his brothers were pickin then
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he took it with him
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That Gibson Hummingbird guitar
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Verse 2
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Oh how that guitar would ring
Dad would close his eyes and sing
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Silver Haired Daddy would always
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bring a tear to his eyes
Verse 3
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I was all of five years old
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My brother Don and a kid
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down the road
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We just did what we was told
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to get outside and play
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Someone wrapped it in a coat
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And we took it to the swamp
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just to see if it'd float
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But a Hummingbird is not a boat
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And it sank straight away
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Verse 4
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When he got home that's when he heard
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What we'd done to that Hummingbird
and never said a word
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Just went out back to see
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Verse 5
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And there it was in all it's mess
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With the cattails and the
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redwing nests
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And there he laid it down to rest for all eternity
Interlude 1
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One of these days you know what I'll do
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Get a Hummingbird guitar and a
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brother or two
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Underneath a Kentucky moon,
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give him back his childhood dream
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It won't make up for thirty- two years
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And it won't dry up a swamp of tears
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But it's better than a case of beer
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and a fifth of Jim Beam
Outro 1
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