Dyess, Arkansas
Buddy Jewell


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Would you believe this blacktop highway, used to be a one-lane gravel road?
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And back when Johnny Cash was just somebody, Daddy went to school with years ago.
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When the cottonwoods reached to the sky, and honeysuckle vine grew all around.
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My eyes well up with memories, every time I think about this little ol' town.



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'Cause I know there's bigger cities, Full of all the sights and sounds,
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Where people live in fear and lock their doors, long before the sun goes down.
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The drive-in picture show's been closed for years, No superstores or midi-malls,
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____Ah, but everyday I thank the Lord he made Dyess, Arkansas.



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I used to laugh at all the stories, Daddy'd tell me 'bout the mischief he'd get in __
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Dream of penny-candy and nickel soda pops, Lord, what a dollar'd buy back then.
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When livin' life was picture perfect, Like a Norman Rockwell paintin' of the south,
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Lord, I'd give almost anything, to hear my Daddy tell the stories now.


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He'd say: I know there's bigger cities, Full of all the sights and sounds,
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Where people live in fear and lock their doors, long before the sun goes down.
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The drive-in picture show's been closed for years, No superstores or midi-malls,
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_____Still, everyday I thank the Lord he made Dyess, Arkansas.


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Yes, I know there's bigger cities, but there ain't no better town.
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Folks here don't live in fear and lock their doors, long before the sun goes down
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The population sign ain't changed in years, I guess it's destined to be small,
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____Ah, but everyday I thank the Lord he made Dyess, Arkansas, Yeah, everyday I thank the
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Lord He made Dyess, Arkansas.


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