Kenny Chesney

The Good Stuff

Kenny Chesney


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Well me and my lady had our first big fight,
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So I drove around till I saw the neon lights,
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At a corner bar, and it just seemed right, so I pulled up,
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Not a soul around but the ol' barkeep,
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Down at the end lookin half asleep,
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But he walked up and said what'll it be? I said the Good Stuff,
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He didn't reach around for the whiskey, He didn't pour me a beer,
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His blue eyes kinda went misty, he said
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You can't find that here,

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Cause it's the first long kiss on a second date
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Mamma's all worried when you get home late
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And droppin the ring in the spaghetti plate,
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Cause your hands are shaking so much
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It's the way she looks with rice in her hair
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Eatin burnt suppers the whole first year
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And askin for seconds, to keep her from tearin up,
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Yeah man that's the Good Stuff

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He grabbed a carton of milk and poured a glass
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 And I smiled and said I'll have some of that
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We sat there and talked as an hour passed like ol' friends
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Saw a black and white picture and it caught my stare
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Was a pretty girl with bouffant hair
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He said that's my Bonnie, takin bout a year after we wed
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He said I spent five years in the bottle when the cancer took her from me
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I've been sober three years now,
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Cause the one thing stronger than the whiskey was the

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The sight of her holdn my baby girl
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The way she adored that string of pearls
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I gave her the day that our youngest boy Earl
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Married his high school love
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And it's a new T-shirt sayin I'm a Grandpa
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Being right there as our time got small
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And holding her hand, when the good lord called her up
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Yeah man that's the Good Stuff

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He said when you get home she'll start to cry
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When she says I'm sorry, say so am I
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And look into those eyes so deep in love
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And drink it up
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Cause that's the Good Stuff
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That's the Good Stuff