"The Bird Hunters" by Turnpike Troubadours
From the album "The Turnpike Troubadours" (2015)
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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The covey took wing
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Shotguns a singing
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A pointing dog down in the old logging road
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Danny got three
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And looked back a grinning
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I fumbled around and I tried to reload
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The country was cold
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With the sun westward sinking
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It's good to be back in this place
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With my hands around
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A Belgian made Browning
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My mind on the lines of her face
[Verse 2]
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Well now Danny's my buddy
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We grew up like family
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Hunted this timber before we could drive
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The old English pointer
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He once belonged to me
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But I gave him up when I moved in '05
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Off to the girl
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Off to the city
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Off on a wing and a chance
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Hell I thought it'd play out
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Just like some story
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We fell in love at a rodeo dance
[Chorus]
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She said go on back to Cherokee County
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Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
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Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
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Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
[Verse 3]
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Dan says, "Look at old Jim
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A dozen Decembers
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Behind him no worse for the wear
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And your time spent in Tulsa
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Did not help your shooting
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And look at the gray in your hair
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How good does it feel?
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You belong in these hills
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It's best that you let it all end
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If you'd have married that girl
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You'd have married her family
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You dodged a bullet my friend"
[Chorus]
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She said go on back to Cherokee County
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Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
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Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
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Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
[Verse 4]
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I was beginning
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To deal with it ending
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The old dog had pointed while part of me died
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And a flutter of feathers
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Then a shotgun to shoulder
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I thought of the Fourth of July
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She'll be home on the Fourth of July
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I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July
[Bridge]
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[Verse 5]
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Dan says, "Hell of a shot
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Looks like you've still got it
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That's what we came here to do
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It's light enough still
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At the foot of the hill
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We could kick up a single or two"
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She said go on back to Cherokee County
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Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
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Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
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Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
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Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
