The Tennessee Bluegrass Band - Tall Weeds And Rust

                [Verse 1]
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The bulldozer's working back up on the hill
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Same land my grandpa and his daddy tilled
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[D] Three generations of dreams turned to dust
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Watered with tears in the tall weeds and rust


[Chorus]
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Tall weeds and ru--st, tall weeds and rust
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A whole way of life gone to tall weeds and  rust


[Verse 2]
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A stretch of black soil that was our garden  spot
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A shade tree for rest when the sun was too hot
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There lays an old hourglass, it's lost all its sand
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A far cry from when we had time on our hands


[Verse 3]
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They found where somebody had built them a still
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Can't think of his name now, don't reckon I will
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With no one the wiser what's passed them on by
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Sometimes it's best to let sleeping dogs lie


[Chorus]
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Tall weeds and ru--st, tall weeds and rust
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A whole way of life gone to tall weeds and  rust


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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There went the old henhouse that Mama loved so
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We'd wake up each day when the rooster would crow
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She sang while she worked and I'm sorry to say
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I'm glad she can't hear what I'm singing today


[Verse 5]
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They dug up a part of the old sorghum hill
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And the shed where the hams hung when the hogs had  been killed
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My uncle told stories of sugar-sweet cane
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And sugar-sweet girls at the end of the lane


[Chorus]
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Tall weeds and ru--st, tall weeds and rust
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A whole way of life gone to tall weeds and  rust


[Verse 6]
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(Spoken)  Now don't let that 'dozer get too close to those graves
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(Spoken) That's one patch of mountain we just have to save
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Progress, oh progress, move on if you must
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But save me that small patch of tall weeds and rust


[Outro]
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[NC] Tall weeds and ru--st, tall weeds and rust
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A whole way of life gone to tall weeds and ru---st
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Tall weeds and ru---st