Turnpike Troubadours - The funeral
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Well now Gstage right enter DJimmy, just a Gcounterfeit James DDean
with a Gpocket full of Ddelta blues and Acheap amphetamine
Her Gfeet up on the Ddashboard like a Gburned out Betty DPaige
Aw Gshe might have been Dpretty if Ashe was half her age
But toGgether they were Dsomething, just Gclosing down the Dbars
Headed Gdown to Okie DCity in a Aslightly stolen Dcar
The folks were decent people, they didn't like they're kind
When the car pulled in the driveway the were staring through the blinds
The preacher in the kitchen, he's eatin apple pie
Oh momma's in the bedroom she couldn't help but cry
Oh and daddy looked so natural like he'd just gone to sleep
And the preacher looked through Jimmy and prayed his soul to keep
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It's Gcoming Dhome, Acoming Dhome
Ain't Gnothing like a Dfamily to make you Afeel so damned alone
You Gshould've brought Dflowers, should've Agot daddy's Dgun
GAint nobody Dwaiting on the Aprodigal Gson D
Well they pulled out into traffic, moved in behind the hearse
And that awful empty feeling, well it went from bad to worse
The preacher read some scripture and they put him in the ground
Aw then everybody loaded up and headed back to town
But Jimmy got his whiskey out once everyone was gone
Felt he should've said something staring down at the stone
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Well the menfolk folded tables and the ladies cleaned the plates
And the cousins asked about the car locked behind the gate
Jimmy knew his daddy's .38, was in that trunk buried deep
And it would find its rightful owner once his momma was asleep.
And Jimmy looked at momma, momma just looked down
She said why's it take a funeral, boy to bring you back to town