I got the Guns

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They are little more than a few old 
guns handed down the line.

Once owned by my Nana and Papa, but 
now they are mine.

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They've been all the way to Utah, 
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then back home to Texas again.

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They've seen Colorado, Wyoming, and
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 the Grand Canyon.

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Hunting trips in the freezing 
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snow and up before the sun.

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They're now apart of me, I got the 
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guns.

Verse: (same progression as verse 
above)

I never really got to know him I was
 much to young
He died on the Corpus Christi Bay 
when I was one.
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A christian man I barely knew, but 
he was oh so proud of me.
He ran the nursery at the church for
 free
"Amazing Grace how sweet the sound" 
he always sung
Sometimes I can hear him when I fire
 them guns
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I've seen tears in grown men's 
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eyes when they speak of their 
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granddad

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Then they laugh at how he spoiled 
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then to the bone

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I dont have those memories that I 
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can hold on to

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So I keep hanging on to his old 
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guns

Verse: (same progression as the 
others)

Nana lived on a few more years until
 Christmas '79
I thank God for those childhood 
memories of mine
My sister told me in confidence her 
innocent secret birthday wish,
"dear Lord bring Nana back to us"
But instead she got her earrings old
 time clip-ons and she had fun
Me, I was 8 years old and I got the 
guns

Verse:

I was only daughter's son, his pride
 and all his love
Maybe someday if I try my best I'll 
be half the man he was
He knew love lasted longer. The 
great depression only made him 
stronger
He saved his pennied and prayed to 
God each night
He knew how to weather hard times 
and showed us how to overcome
I can feel his strength when I hold 
his guns

Outtro:

Just and old bolt-action 16 gauge
And my grandmother's 410
A 270 that my dad fired once
He brought a mule deer in