Dearly Departed Friend

Intro:
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Verse 1:
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The service went the way it should have gone, no one talk too loud or cried too long
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Except your mommas new boy friend, he went on and on
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while they laid you in the ground.
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Right about then a truck back fired and all the boys they flinched their heads.
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Yeah that shook me up I guess. I've been home a month now and I still can't get no rest.

Chorus:
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I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
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Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did
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Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend

Break:
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Verse 2:
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Barbecue grills and lawn mowers, kids on four-wheelrs and ice cream trucks
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Yeah they buried you on a Saturday, Georgia lost to Tennessee, you would have liked that I know
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Afterwords we went to O'Charley's, Your momma's boyfriend got drunk saying, it should have been 
me
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I wish it was, him I mean.
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So I went home got drunk and watched the TV

Chorus:
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I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
D                        G                   A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did
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Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind
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Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend

Bridge:
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Hey there's only one road that leads out of this town and it comes right back
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So I just drive in circles, circles, and I try not to blow my stack
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Out at the mall and the motor mile, it's just as lonesome as a sea
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Man the girls 'round here, the girls 'round here are just as hopeless as they used to be

Break:
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Verse 3:
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Oh go on and tie another yellow ribbon around the ole hackberry tree
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and tamp the dirt down
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Y'all go on home now, there aint nothing here to see

Chorus:
D                              G               A
I'm standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
D                        G                   A
Nothing much to say, except sorry it turned out like it did
G                   A                       D
Twenty-one guns for twenty-one years and American Flags in the wind
G                      A                         D
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend
G                      A                         D
Standing by the grave of a dearly departed friend

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