Almost Like Having You Here
The dog and I would sleep in,
but you would bark at the door,
You said I’d never be nothin,
but I never tried for too much more.
Our house rose up from the falls,
you know how much this life takes,
The neighbors had paper walls,
some blessings are bad breaks.
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well, I’m nursin’ a summer beer
and you still owe me a few,
I’m so miserable without you
it’s almost like having you here.
we had a drunkin’ time in Dallas,
we raged on the ocean pier,
we thought there was an us,
but it was just another long damn year.
[chorus]
You have your life in Tuscon,
I got mine in Tennessee,
The prairie’s a hidden plain,
you took enough time from me.
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NOTE: Wrote this with no knowledge of Gene Watson's version. Ain't nothing new under the sun, Johnnie Dun.
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NOTE 2: And of course the internet made dumb memes too. Sigh. Dun 4.
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