Rocky mountain music
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1. Back upon an old dirt road,
next to a swamp full of toads
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was a
slanted wood shack with three little kids and a momma.
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Papa died in '63, left little Jenny and me,
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to
plant those 'taters and pull
up another tomorrow.
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Rocky Mountain music fills my memory with you,
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Rocky mountain music, Papa, can I hear you playin
for me.
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2. Little brother was never quite right,
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he
used to sit on the floor in the sunlight,
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playin with the dust that danced on the beams in the
window.
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Sister had to cook and clean cuz momma she
got sick and lean,
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sometimes
I think she just got that way missin poppa.
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Rocky Mountain music fills my memory with you,
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Rocky mountain music, Momma, can I hear you singin to me.
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3. well every thing has
changed today
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little
brother, he was taken away,
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sister,
she married a soldier and lives in Toledo.
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And me I'm in a Nashville bar and I've never been so far
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from
that old gravel road and the rivers that run through my mem'ry.
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Rocky Mountain music fills my memory with you,
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Rocky mountain music, brother, can I hear you callin me.
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Rocky Mountain music fills my memory with you,
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Rocky mountain music, Papa, can I hear you playin
for me.
+ C# ....
(Eddie Rabbitt)