The Carter boys were born one after another in a little old country place
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I was the last and the death of my mother and I know it was a pretty bad trade
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We'd get to drinking and I'd do the singing, they taught me to chase girls and cuss
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We'd play poker, I'd do the dealing I was the only one we could trust
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And there were six of us all together
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And that's how we stood all the time
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Six of us all together
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The Carter boys were brothers of mine
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We had an old car that we kept tied together with pieces of baling wire and hope
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They knew when we got there, they knew when we left, they could tell by the noise and the smoke
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Anytime the sheriff had nothing to do he'd get out and chase us around
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The old women prayed, the old men laughed and the middle-aged people all frowned
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Daddy was a preacher and the Lord knows he tried, gave us everything he could afford
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We lost a lot of battles but Daddy always said the only thing we feared was the Lord
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Well as I look back through the long lean years, I wonder how we ever survived
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All that hard work, all of those women, and all those pistols and knives
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The Carter Boys
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| Tom T. Hall |
