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Honkytonk Graveyard

from Tumblers & Grit by Chris Richards

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HONKYTONK GRAVEYARD
(Richards)

Bury me in the honkytonk graveyard
Where all the old carousers go to sleep
And there’s a thousand steel guitars and fiddles
Lying somewhere underneath your feet
Filled with all the no-good, lazy sinners
Who ever walked in through a swingin’ door
And every single, free good-timin’ woman
Who ever danced a sawdust-covered floor

My last request shouldn’t be too hard
I don’t need no one to pray for me
Bury me in the honkytonk graveyard
That’s as close to heaven as I want to be

Put sequins on the inside of my coffin
So it sparkles like the desert sky
Maybe I won’t miss ‘em quite as often
If they’re shining right before my eyes
Nestle in a half a pint of bourbon
Just so that I won’t forget the smell
And I know there’ll be a jukebox where I’m goin’
So throw a roll of quarters in as well

Bury me in the honkytonk graveyard
The last spot in the last remaining row
Fashion me a tombstone out of neon
So everyone can see it from the road
And if some night you’re walkin’ out this way and
You think you’re hearing something in the wind
It might be this old guitar a-playin’
And all the singing cowboys joining in

©2002 Lake Court Music (ASCAP)

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from Tumblers & Grit, released July 28, 2004

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