Tom T. Hall - I cried all the way to kentucky

^CWhen I got the word that our ^FUncle Joe ^Cdied I did what we all did, I sat down and ^Gcried Got ^Cinto my car, headed ^Fhome for the ^Chills Back home to Kentucky where the ^Gfuneral was ^Cheld

^FI cried all the way to ^CKentucky ^CHis memory so sweet to recall ^FUncle Joe lived such a good life ^DLove and respected by ^Gall ^CHis jokes were the talk of the county ^CHe knew how to make people ^Flaugh ^FI cried all the way to ^CKentucky ^CAnd then I smiled ^Gall the way ^Cback

^CThe Preacher said Joe was a w^Fonderful g^Cuy And God has a project for him in the s^Gky His ^Cstories are binging ^Fthe Angels a ^Csmile To turn us in new ways to^G cheer us aw^Chile

^CJoe once brought a skunk into^F Sunday Sc^Chool class That even made grouchy ole Deacon Jone^Gs laugh He s^Cays it's been fixed ^Fand it smells^C like a rose All of you good christians turn lo^Gose of your ^Cnose

^FI cried all the way to ^CKentucky ^CHis memory so sweet to recall ^FUncle Joe lived such a good life ^DLove and respected by ^Gall ^CHis jokes were the talk of the county ^CHe knew how to make people ^Flaugh ^FI cried all the way to ^CKentucky ^CAnd then I smiled ^Gall the way ^Cback

^CThat Halloween night no one m^Feant any h^Carm When the outhouse was perched up on Gr^Gandpa's old barn I t^Chink of those things^F when I tell ^CJoe goodbye A smile on my lips and a ^Gtear in my e^Cye

^FI cried all the way to ^CKentucky ^CHis memory so sweet to recall ^FUncle Joe lived such a good life ^DLove and respected by ^Gall ^CHis jokes were the talk of the county ^CHe knew how to make people ^Flaugh ^FI cried all the way to ^CKentucky ^CAnd then I smiled ^Gall the way ^Cback

^FI cried all the way to ^CKentucky ^CAnd then I smiled ^Gall the way ^Cback