Uncle Fred

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Uncle Fred, how are you set, for 
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candy bars and ciga- -rettes
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Overalls and kerosene, baseball 
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caps and maga- -zines
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Let's all go to Brown's today, 
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don't need a map to find the way
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Sit on the porch and smoke a few,
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 there's nothing else I'd rather do

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* Tell me 'bout the time you went,
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 to Chuckey school for fifteen cents
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*You saw A.P. and Sara too, heard 
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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 
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time, still got the pictures in his 
mind
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** Scolfield Barracks, Diamond 
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Head, "What a time," he smiled and 
said

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Uncle Fred and R.G. too, have a 
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seat and tell a few
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Been working on that car today, 
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it's out of gas and by the way
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Just whittle on that stick a 
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while, every now and then he'd smile
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Calloused hands, a pocket knife, 
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tobacco farmer all his life

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Uncle Fred has passed away, I 
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came to see his grave to- -day
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"What a time," I smiled and said,
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 still got the pictures in my head

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