_ _ _ _ _ _ I'll tell you something.
_ _ _ 1968 was.
Just another year the fields needed chillin and there wasn't enough rain.
But
D it was the first year Rosie started bringing my lunch out to the field every day _ _ _ _ _ .
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Bm _ _ _ _ .
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D You get your hands in it.
Plant your roots
G in it.
Duffy head a lot dance with your boots
Bm in it _ _ .
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D You write a name on it spin your tires
G on it build your cornfield whiskey bonfires
Bm on it _ _ .
You bet your life
G on it _ _ _ .
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Bm Smile looks so good.
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G _ _ Makes _ you wanna
Bm Stand _ down.
A _ On
D this dirt _ _ .
Rosie and I had five
G children one died at birth.
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Bm _ Tough times tough years, but it okay.
G _ You _ .
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D _ _ _ make some sweat with it taking a shovel
G to it.
You stuff some crosses
D and some painted goalposts
Bm through it _ _ .
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D _ You know you came from _ .
Bm Sometimes smile looks so good.
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G _ _ Makes _ you wanna
D build
Bm a ten percent down why
A big fans house on
D this dirt I _ .
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G Asked Rosie one time
D she wanted to travel and see the
Bm world.
_ No, she said a.
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G World comes right to my window every
D day.
Even if it is
Bm broken, you know you came from _ _ _
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Bm _ some day.
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G I.
See Rosie was right about two things.
You don't have to
Bm see the world of the world.
Raise _ _
G good children bake good enough
D pies.
The world to come right to your kitchen window.
She's _ right about something else, too _ _ .
_ I built that baseball diamond way too close to the kitchen.
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G You _ _ _ _ .
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Bm _ know you came from it.
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G _ _ _ Yes,
D someday you'll return to _ _ _ _ _ .
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