Dewey Wayne - The Fyffe, Alabama UFO Blues
from the album: Here for the Music
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Well me and a good ol' buddy of mine, figured we'd have ourselves a good time
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So we loaded up the truck for a weekend trip
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He threw in his tent and I loaded my gun, grabbed some wieners and the hotdog buns
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And then to Green's Grocery to get some dip
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Ol' Jim said he knew of a place, it was just there up the road aways
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Right outside our hometown of Fyffe
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Down Co Rd 50 past that one big hill, is where his pa had built this still
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Down that one dirt trail that cuts off to the right
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We drove though the woods and when I thought, we'd turned wrong and gotten lost
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A clearing came up and that still rose into view
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Jim said, "We just gotta watch our step, 'cause I guarantee my pa would flip
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If he found out we were down here drinking his brew"
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I said, "10-4 buddy as I stopped the truck, in the mornin' there when we're loading up
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I'll walk behind and make sure we've covered our tracks"
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I tell his pa knows how to make shine, after just one swig I was feeling fine
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And we kicked back with a jug just to relax
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After shooting some beer cans off a tree, it was starting to get too dark to see
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So we headed back toward the still for another jar
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Just about then the whole sky lit up, I looked around and said, "I must be drunk
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Just a minute ago I could have swore it was dern near dark"
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I looked back at Jim but he had stopped, his eyes were wide and his jaw had dropped
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And he was starring up at something just above the trees
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Well I looked up there toward that light, and what I saw was a magnificent sight
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It was broad, curved and yeller as it could be
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Don't know what sound a flyin banana makes, but I listened hard and there was no mistake
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It was moving quiet as a breeze there through the sky
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Jim looked at me, I said, "I don't know". He said, "That there's a UFO"
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And he grabbed up the gun with a crazed look in his eye
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Now Jim's never been accused of bein too smart, and when it comes to shootin' he can't hit a barn
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But he thought he could sight an alien and make a kill
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Before I could even make a sound, Jim had done pointed and fired a round
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But I was couldn't help but notice the barrel was pointed at the still
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Man that still went off like an atomic bomb, shot flaming streams of alcohol
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And Jim got hit in the head with some copper line
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I tell you one way to get an alien's attention, is a shotgun blast and not to mention
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The explosion seen from highly flammable shine
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Jim wasn't even phased he just loaded again, I said, "Boy have you done lost your sense"
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That's one big beer can that just might shoot back
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That UFO spun around, zoomed right up and then touched down
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I said, "I think it's high time we made some tracks"
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Jim said, "I don't think that we can outrun it". I said, "Well I ain't standing right here in front of it.
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Besides I figure I just got to outrun you"
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And I let out of there like a scalded dog, and I never looked back at Jim at all
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But I could hear him right behind of me high-tailing it too
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Then he whined something about probing in the rear, I said "partner that's all I need to hear"
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And we jumped in that truck we were getting on out of there
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Man I fired her up slammed it down, cut it and slung the back end on around
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We were throwing up rooster tails a 100 foot in the air
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We didn't slow down till we were almost home, and I looked at Jim and said, "Get on the phone
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To that UFO hotline and tell them what we've seen"
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He said "I'm sorry partner that ain't gonna get it, them hotline fellers done put me on a limit
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Now I can only call in one time a week"
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'Cause I see them flying around all the time, and not just when I'm drinking shine
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But also yesterday while picking mushrooms
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I said "I ought to knock you out but don't guess I will, when your pa finds out you destroyed his still
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You're fixin' to have plenty of trouble coming to you"
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Well I haven't told a soul about what went down, 'cause they wouldn't believe me anyhow
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And next time I'll find another way to unwind
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The moral here I won't forget, is when Jim makes plans for a weekend trip
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I'm gonna make... sure they don't include? shrooms or shine.