Old Time Country Halls

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As I pick up my guitar to sing another song
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I hear the walls of this old hall-you?ve done this thing too long
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You know you?ve been around for years, I guess you?ve shown us all
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I talk like this when I reminisce with an old time country hall.

[Verse 2]
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I joined a tent show as a kid with a dream and an old guitar
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De silvers all star cavalcade and Dante was the star
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He taught me lots about the game, today I understand
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He was a great magician and he was a fine old man

[Chorus]
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I?m a howlin cattle camp crooner, I?m an old time dinosaur
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Hey. Let me sing where the rafaters ring, in an old time country hall.

[Verse 3]
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I?ve been on the road for forty years and Dante could equal that
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And you?ll find his faded posters still in some halls way out back
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I like to go back stage and dream sometimes and just recall
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The shows I?ve had, the good and bad, shared with these country halls.

[Verse 4]
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Take the old Town hall Kalgoorlie with it?s old time charm and grace
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And your multi-million complexes never will replace
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All glass and steel and concrete, some large and some too small
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Oh let me sing where the rafters ring in the old time country halls.

[Chorus]
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I?m howlin cattle camp crooner, I?m an old time dinosaur
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Hey, let me sing where the rafters ring, in an old time country hall
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I?m holing cattle camp crooner, I?m an old time dinosaur
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Hey let me sing where the rafters ring, in an old time country hall

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In an old time country hall
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In an old time country hall.