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Verse #1

  My daddy played poker in the woods they say, back in his younger days

  Prohibition was the talk but the rich folks walked to the woods where my daddy stayed

  Jugs and jars from shiners, these old boys here they aint biners

  Came from the 29er's, it didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottum in their face

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Verse #2

Back in the 30's when the dust bowl dried and the woods of Alabama didn't see no light

My daddy played poker by a hardwood fire, squeezing all his luck from a hot copper wire

Scrap like a wildcat, fights till the end. Trap a wildcat and take its skin

Deal from the bottom, put the ace in the hole

One hand on the jug, but you never do know

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Chorus #1

  Son come running

  Better come quick

  This rotgut moonshine is making me sick

  Your momma called the law and they're gonna take me away

  Down so far even the devil wont stay

  Where I called to the Lord with all my soul

  I could hear him rattling the chain on the door

  He couldn't get in, I could see he tried

  Through the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light

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Chorus #2

  Daddy tell me another story

  Tell me about the low's and the high's

  Tell me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth or a lie

  Tell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad

  with the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in their hand

Verse #3

My daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back when the world was gray

Before black and white went and chose up sides and gave a little bit of both their way

The only blood that's any cleaner is the blood that's blue or greener

Without either you just get meaner and the blood you gave gives you away

Chorus Intro

Chorus

  Then it's just till the end.