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My father died, a year ago today
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the rooster started crowing as they carried dad away
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There beside my mother in the living room i stood
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with my brother and my sister knowing Dad was
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gone for good. Well i stayed around just long
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enough to lay him in the ground, Then i caught a
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plane to do a show up north in Detroit town
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Cause in older now, I aint got no time to cry.
verse 2
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Ive got no time to look back and ive got no time
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to see, The pieces of my heart that have been
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ripped away from me, And when the feelings start
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to come in, Ive learned to stop'em fast, Cause
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I dont no if i let'em go they might not want to
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pass.And theres so many people trying to get me
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on the phone and theres bills to pay and songs
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to play and a house to make a home, And im older
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now,I aint got no time to cry
verse 3
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I can still remember, befor there was a MERLE.
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So many things have changed so much here in my
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world, I remember sitting in the backyard when
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an ambulance went by, just listening to those
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sirens, I would break down and cry.. and now Im
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walking and Im talking doing just what im
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supposed to do working overtime to make sure i
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dont come unglued and Im older now, I aint got no
time to cry.
verse 4
(song changes keys here)
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I go lay down on the sofa and i watch the evening
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news, Theres a half a dozen tragedies from which
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to pick and choose, The baby that was missing was
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found in a ditch today and theres bombs a flying
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people dying not so far away - ill take a beer
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out of the fridgerator go sit out in the yard
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and with a cold one in my hand im gonna bite down
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and swallow hard cause im older now, I aint got
no time to cry.
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Its true- I guess im older now
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I aint got no time to cry
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no time to cry
G D
no time to cry
G D
no time to cry
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