Kentucky Homemade Christmas

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[Verse 1]
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They shut down the mine last summer
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We're gettin' by on welfare
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It's Christmas Eve I'm walkin' home
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Not a dollar to my name
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Night is almost on me
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A night I'm almost dreading
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No store bought gifts to open
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But there'll be Christmas just the same

[Chorus]
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It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
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Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
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It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
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Our fine and fancy homemade love God's precious gift from up above
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Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

[Verse 2]
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  There's a brand new Barlow knife
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with a shiny wooden handle
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Gleamin' in the window
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  Down at Galen Johnson's store
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My wide eyed little Billy Boy
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His face pressed to the window
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Too young for understandin'
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  what it means to be so poor

[Chorus]
           Am     C        F               C
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
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Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
           Am     C        F               C
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
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Our fine and fancy homemade love God's precious gift from up above
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Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

[Verse 3]
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Little Linda ain't no baby hell
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She turns thirteen in April
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She's been dreamin' about that dolly
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In the window for half her life
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She's old enough to realize
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That it ain't never comin'
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I'd damn near rob a bank
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To get that doll and Billy's knife

[Chorus]
          Bm      D        G               D
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
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Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
           Bm     D        G               D
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
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Our fine and fancy homemade love God's precious gift from up above
                               Bm      A             D
Make up the homemade Christmas of this poor Kentucky man

[Outro]
          Bm      D        G               D
It's just another homemade Christmas in Kentucky
     G               D                 Em7               A
Just odds and ends I fashioned with my heart and with my hands
           Bm     D        G
It's just another homemade Christmas