We All Got Together And...

I'm the guy who didn't marry pretty pamela brown
Educated, well-intentioned, good girl in our town
I wonder where i'd be today if she had loved me too
Probably be driving kids to school

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I guess i owe it all to pamela brown
All of my good times and all my roamin' around
One of these days i might come ramblin' through your town
And i guess i owe it all to pamela brown

I've seen the lights of cites and i've been inside their doors
I've sailed to foreign countries and i've walked upon their shores
I guess the guy she married was the best part of my luck
She dug him 'cause he drove a pick-up truck

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I don't have to tell you just how beautiful she was
Everything it takes to get a country boy in love
Lord, i hope she's happy 'cause she sure deserves to be
Especially for what she did for me

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Me And Jesus

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Me and Jesus, got our own thing goin'.
Me and Jesus, got it all worked out.
Me and Jesus, got our own thing goin'.
We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

(1st Verse) I know a man, who once was a sinner.

I know a man, who once was a drunk.

And I know a man, who once was a looser.

He went out one day and made an alter out of a stump.

(2nd Verse) Jesus brought me through all of my troubles.

Jesus brought me through all of my trials.

Jesus brought me through all of my heartaches.

And I know that Jesus ain't gonna' forsake me now.

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(3rd Verse) We can't afford any fancy preachin'.

We can't afford any fancy church.

We can't afford any fancy singin'.

You know Jesus got a lot of poor people out doin' his work.

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I guess you know jethro went crazy; we've all been crazy sometimes
They fixed up his lungs and his fever; but they could not fix up his mind
He married a beautiful redhead; of women they say she's a pearl
She gave her heart to jethro, and her body to the whole damn world

Well, jethro had someone to talk to; they were monsters and little green men
He never talked to his woman; naw, he spent all his time with his friends
In the evenings she'd drive off and leave him; she tossed back her long, pretty curls
She gave her heart to jethro, and her body to the whole damn world

Some friends came and begged her to leave him; they said, "jethro belongs in a home."
She said, "my heart is jethro's, but my god-given body is my own."
Now some of her lovers were strangers; she gave everybody a whirl
She gave her heart to jethro, and her body to the whole damn world

I know some will condemn me for writin' this song of a man and his wife
A man's not writin' if he can't relate all the things that he sees in his life
I know some will condemn me for cursin', but much can be said for this girl
Who gave her heart to ol' jethro, and her body to the whole damn world

Johnny got up one morning; he went down to the company store
Got him a big box of bullets to fit into his .44
The store man said, "son, are you gonna work? you know you owe me too much to stop."
John said, "i got a little workin' to do but i ain't goin' by your clock."

People said john was a slacker, 'cause he wouldn't fight in their war
A man wasn't much if he wouldn't fight back in 1940 and 4
The doctor said john was just too sick to go, but the people said that he was a coward
And one of the men makin' fun of him was a fellow named milton howard

Milton was down at the cold spring, a-drinkin' from a mason jar
He said, "john, you better get yourself to work or you're gonna fool around 'til you get fired."
John blew the dust from his old .44, put two holes in milton's head
When johnny walked off to get some more shootin' done, that ol' cold spring was a-runnin' red

Next guy he met was a stigall boy, and the boy had a hammer in his hand
John said "son, you should've built yourself a box, 'cause you're a headed for the promised land."
Stigall fell down to his knees to pray, and he cried "lord, johnny please don't shoot!"
Before he got halfway to saying "amen", well old johnny shot him out of his boots

Word went out through the county, that old john had lost his head
The people were runnin' and screamin'; there were seven of 'em lyin' there dead
Johnny hid out in a farmhouse; he had satisfaction in his eyes
He said "i know they're coming to get me, boys, but they ain't a-gonna take me alive."

People gathered 'round that old farmhouse; it was the relatives of all them dead
Now john said, "if the sheriff comes through that door i'm gonna fill him plumb full of lead."
The sheriff kicked down that old farmhouse door, but old john's gun would not shoot
Johnny just smiled at the sheriff and said, "the lord must think a lot of you."

They took old john to the jailhouse; he entered in a guilty plea
The judge said death in the electric chair, 'cause it's murder in the first degree
John's last meal was a lot of fried chicken, cold beans and baby squash
He ate every bite that they brought him, then he smiled and said, "i thank you all a lot."

They put old john in the electric chair; they shaved his ankles and his head
The preacher said, "son, have you got something to say; in a minute you're a-gonna be dead."
John said, "i ain't no coward, and the people know that i won't run."
Then johnny smiled up at the warden and said, "turn it on, turn it on, turn it on!"