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(laid-back guitar music)

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- I'd like to do a song for you now.

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It's been quite a few years 
ago when I wrote this.

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I lost my daddy and I wanted 
to write a song for him.

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I didn't want to write some old, sad,

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crying, dying thing, you know.

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So I started thinking about growing up,

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all I wanted to do is drive something.

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He taught me all about that,

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and that's what this song's about.

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♪ It's painted red, the stripe was white ♪

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♪ It was eighteen feet from 
the bow to stern light ♪

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♪ Secondhand from a dealer in Atlanta ♪

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♪ I rode up with daddy, when 
he went there to get her ♪

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♪ Put on a shine, put on a motor ♪

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♪ Built out of love, made for the water ♪

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♪ Ran her for years 'til 
the transom got rotten ♪

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♪ A piece of my childhood 
will never be forgotten ♪

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♪ It was just an old plywood boat ♪

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♪ A '75 Johnson with electric choke ♪

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♪ A young boy, two hands on the wheel ♪

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♪ I can't replace the 
way it made me feel ♪

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♪ And I would turn her sharp ♪

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♪ And I would make it whine ♪

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♪ He'd say, you can't beat the 
way an old wood boat rides ♪

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♪ Just a little lake 
across the Alabama line ♪

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♪ But I was king of the ocean ♪

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♪ When daddy let me drive ♪

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♪ Just an old half-ton short bed Ford ♪

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♪ My uncle bought new in '64 ♪

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♪ Daddy got it right 'cause 
the engine was smoking ♪

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♪ A couple of burnt valves, 
and he had it going ♪

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♪ He'd let me drive her 
when we haul off a load ♪

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♪ Down a dirt strip 
where we'd dump trash ♪

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♪ Off of Thigpen Road ♪

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♪ I'd sit up in the seat ♪

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♪ And stretch my feet out to the pedals ♪

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♪ Smiling like a hero that 
just received his medal ♪

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♪ It was just an old hand-me-down Ford ♪

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♪ With three-speed on the 
column and a dent in the door ♪

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♪ A young boy, two hands on the wheel ♪

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♪ I can't replace the 
way it made me feel ♪

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♪ And I would press that clutch ♪

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♪ And I would keep it right ♪

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♪ He'd say, a little slower, 
son, you're doing just fine ♪

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♪ Just a dirt road with 
trash on each side ♪

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♪ But I was Mario Andretti ♪

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♪ When daddy let me drive ♪

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♪ I'm grown up now ♪

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♪ Three daughters of my own ♪

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♪ I let them drive my old jeep ♪

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♪ Across the pasture at our home ♪

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♪ Maybe one day they'll 
reach back in their file ♪

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♪ And pull out that old memory ♪

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♪ And think of me and smile and say ♪

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♪ It was just an old worn out jeep ♪

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♪ Rusty old floor boards ♪

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♪ Hot on my feet ♪

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♪ A young girl, two hands on the wheel ♪

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♪ I can't replace the 
way it made me feel ♪

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♪ And he'd say, turn it left ♪

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♪ And steer it right ♪

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♪ Straighten up, girl, now, 
you're doing just fine ♪

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♪ Just a little valley by 
the river where we'd ride ♪

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♪ But I was high on a mountain ♪

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♪ When daddy let me drive ♪

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♪ When daddy let me drive ♪

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♪ Oh he let me drive ♪

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♪ It's just an old plywood boat ♪

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♪ With a '75 Johnson ♪

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♪ With electric choke ♪