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Me and Oliver and Virgil is-at the drug store killin time
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when my eyes fell upon this magazine
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I started readin this article on skydiving and parachutes
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and they said jumpin out of airplanes was the thing
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Now being raised down on a farm and always lookin for adventure
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I knew that we could figure out a way
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Delmer Gill has got a parachute and uncle Harvey’s got an airplane
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so I said call the boys together today's the day
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Well I found out too late what uncle Harvey called an airplane
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Wasnt nuthin but an engine and a wing
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and I could feel my fear a-risen as Delmer packed the parachute
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cause he kept tellin me ayes doin the right thing
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Ron McLaughlin shook my hand as JD strapped me in the harness
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and Tilden brought a jug and passed it around
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I took one look at that parachute, that whiskey and that airplane
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and I turned that bottle up and drank it down.
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Well I was drunker than Cooter Jones when they poured me in the plane
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the engine coughed and sputtered towards the clouds
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Well I was sober as a judge when he opened up that door
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I never knew my heart to beat that loud
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I said HARVEY I CANT DO IT as he pushed my out the door
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and I wrapped my hands around the landing gear
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and I was holdin on real good till Harvey stepped down on my fingers
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Virgil said he heard me scream from way up there!
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Well I thanked God and Delmer Gilles when that parachute finally opened
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I said hell, there aint no use in bein afraid
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and I went crashin through the hen-house scattering chickens and breakin eggs
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and I kissed the ground and fainted dead away.
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Now friends I've done some fightin, and I've been shot at once or twice,
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and I dern-near got run over by a train.
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But I can't recall the day that I was many more afraid
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Then the day I jumped from Uncle Harvey's Plane.