Tanya Tucker

I Still Sing The Old Songs

Tanya Tucker


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Grandpa I've been thinking bout you lately

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Wondering if you'd found your peace of mind

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I bet you'd be proud to know your grandsons

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Never crossed that Mason Dixon line


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And I still sing the old songs that you taught me

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And I still pray to Jesus now and then

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And just like you I wish that He would save me

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To see the day the south will rise again


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Daddy wore his Purple Heart so proudly

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Long before he turned into a man

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Buried with our flag across his casket

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I was still too young to understand


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And I still sing the old songs that you taught me

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And I still pray to Jesus now and then

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And just like you I wish that He would save me

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To see the day the south will rise again


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Mama spent her last years in the garden

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While brother took his turn behind the gun

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Lord I'd give my life to find the freedom

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Lost within the old songs that you sung


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And I still sing the old songs that you taught me

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And I still pray to Jesus now and then

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And just like you I wish that He would save me

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To see the day the south will rise again