Chicken On The Ground

	  		Verse 1: 
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	There's an old familiar hillside overlooking Emhouse,Texas 
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	Where i left some childhood memories layin' round 
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	I can almost hear the singing,i can still remember praying 
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	At them old campground meetings eatin' chicken on the ground 

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	With them hallelujahs ringin',everybody shoutin',singin' 
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	Give me that old time religion,Jesus loves me,this i know 
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	When life was finger-lickin' good and God lived in our neighborhood 
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	At them old campground meetin's eatin' chicken on the ground
 
 
 
Verse 2: 
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	I can still remember feelin' all that happiness inside me 
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	When i praised the Lord and laid my burdens down 
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	But that chicken must have tasted better than the word of God 
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	'Cause it went slippin' through my fingers and rollin' on the ground 
 
 
Chorus. 
 
 
Verse 3: 
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	I reckon everyone of us can call back or remember 
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	When the taste and smell of youth was all around 
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	And i reckon in our own way everyone of us is payin' now 
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	For eatin' chicken  and not listenin' to old Parson Brown 
 
 
Chorus (x3).