Matthew

VERSE 1:

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I had an uncle name of 
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Matthew...he was his father's only 
boy
Born just south of Colby, 
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Kansas...he was his mother's 
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pride and joy

CHORUS:
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   Yes, and joy was just the thing 
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he was raised on
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   Love was just a way to live and
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 die
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   Gold was just a windy Kansas 
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wheat field
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   Blue was just a Kansas summer sky


VERSE 2:
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And all the stories that he told 
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me back when I was just a lad
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All the memories that he gave 
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me...all the good times that he had
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Growin' up a Kansas farmboy...life
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 was mostly havin' fun
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Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders 
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behind a mule, beneath the sun


CHORUS:


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Well, I guess there were some hard 
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times and I'm told some years were 
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lean
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They had a storm in '47...twister 
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came and stripped 'em clean
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He lost the farm and lost his 
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family...he lost the wheat, he lost
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 his home
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But he found the family bible and 
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faith as solid as a stone


CHORUS


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So he came to live at our 
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house...and he came to work the land
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He came to ease my daddy's burdens 
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and he came to be my friend
So I wrote this down for 
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Matthew...it's for him this song 
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is sung
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Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders 
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behind a mule, beneath the sun


CHORUS: repeat twice