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Uncle Fred, how are you set, for candy bars and ciga- -rettes
Am C D
Overalls and kerosene, baseball caps and maga- -zines
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Let's all go to Brown's today, don't need a map to find the way
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Sit on the porch and smoke a few, there's nothing else I'd rather do
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* Tell me 'bout the time you went, to Chuckey school for fifteen cents
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*You saw A.P. and Sara too, heard Mother Maybelle play that tune
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Uncle Fred recalls the day, he left the farm and moved a-(D-way
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sailed across the (C deep blue sea, Panama to Waiki-(D-ki
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** Served his country, did his time, still got the pictures in his mind
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** Scolfield Barracks, Diamond Head, "What a time," he smiled and said
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Uncle Fred and R.G. too, have a seat and tell a few
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Been working on that car today, it's out of gas and by the way
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Just whittle on that stick a while, every now and then he'd smile
C G C D G
Calloused hands, a pocket knife, tobacco farmer all his life
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Uncle Fred has passed away, I came to see his grave to- -day
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"What a time," I smiled and said, still got the pictures in my head
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do twice
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do twice