18 Video Tapes

Intro: D G D A / D G A D

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One day little Billy said 
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“momma, where’s my dad?”
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fighting back the tears she said 
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“I knew one day you’d ask”
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She walked him down the hallway, 
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to a closet with a safe
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Said “I think you’ll find the 
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answer right here, in these 18 video
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 tapes”

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See the doctors told him he’d be 
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gone before you were born
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And it broke his heart to know 
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he’d never hold you in his arms
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Determined not to let you grow up
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 learning from mistakes
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He put everything he thought 
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you’d need to know, on 18 video 
tapes


G     Em         D              A
Like here’s the way you hold a bat,
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Be sure to keep that shoulder back
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And when you cast that rod and reel,
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Well use your wrist its in the 
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field,
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Or when you learn to ride your bike
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I’ll tell you now that you won’t 
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like those training wheels
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But your momma will

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That day on his momma showed him 
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one of them a year
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Sometimes it was almost like his 
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dad was really there
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Sometimes he laughed, sometimes 
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he cried
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But he always walked away
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Having learned another lesson from
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 his dad, in those 18 video tapes


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Like when you shave don’t get too 
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close
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Lose the hair but leave the nose
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And when your momma gives you my old
 truck
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Don’t drive too fast or ride the 
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clutch
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Don’t listen to your buddies son
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when the conversation comes to 
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the birds and bees
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Just go to tape 18


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Well I just need to tell you one 
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more thing before I go
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It wont be long you’ll have a 
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little baby of your own
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Be there for him every day, no 
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matter what it takes
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Even you have to put your love on
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 18 video tapes