David Allan Coe 
Merle And Me

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Back in 1953
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We stole a car old Merle And Me
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Never thinking we’d be put in jail.
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You might say that we were green 
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I was barely seventeen
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When they put those bars between old Merle And Me.
 
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Late one night we hit the wall
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Twenty feet we had to fall
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To the ground where we could craw into the weeds.
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Waiting for that shotgun blast
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Never thinking we could last
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We sure had to grow up fast, old Merle And Me.

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We were young and crazy then
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It was easy to pretend
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Acting like we’d never been in reform school.
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Looking danger in the eye
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Walking with our heads held high
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We were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me.

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We were living by the gun
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Never caring what wed done
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Swearing it was all just fun and games you know.
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We would die and go to hell
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Before we broke our vow to tell

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How we escaped that prison cell, old Merle And Me.
 
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How was Merle or Me to know 
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We would end up on death row
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Waiting for our turn in the electric chair.
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Shot down in a grocery store
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We got busted at the door
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Praying wasn't easy for, old Merle And Me.

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