D 200232 (D/F#)

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I had a dog named Banjo  and a girl named Muffin
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I just blew in from Texas,  I didn't know nothing
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But I found my way around this town with a friend I made named Guy
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Who loved Susanna,  and so did I

[Verse 2]
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Now, there was this run down shack on Acklen Avenue that I shared with Skinny Dennis
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And a poet name of Richard Dobson who had a novel he'd never finish
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That's when Johnny Rodriguez, David Olney and Steve Earle first came through
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And every other guitar bum whose name I never knew

[Chorus]
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Old school Nashville, Harlan Howard, Bob McDill
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Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Now, there was this tight-rope-walker who called herself "The Queen of Poughkeepsie"
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Who ran away from the circus with some roustabout redneck gypsy
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Now, they were Townes Van Zandt fans and  prone to combustion
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They fought like dogs in Spanish  and made love in Russian

[Bridge]
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I wish Newberry and Buck White would drop on by the house tonight
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 Things have changed 'round here you bet, but it don't seem much better yet

[Verse 4]
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I first met Willie Nelson with some friends at a party
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I was twenty-two years old and he must've been pushing forty
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Now, there was hippies and reefer and God knows what all, I was drinking pretty hard
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I played him this shitty song I wrote, then puked out in the yard

[Chorus]
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Old school Nashville, Harlan Howard, Bob McDill
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Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away
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Tom T. Hall, go drink your fill, and blow us all away