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12/20/14

Hats Off

Hats Off

Recorded by Alabama
written by Randy Owen, Ronnie Rogers, Teddy Gentry
and Greg Fowler

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The stage is set tonight down in Nashville  
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It's been a long hard ride into town
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And thanks to some cowboys and heros
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My chance to sing has finally come around

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The first song I ever sang was Haggard
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Momma sang to me I Saw The Light
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I'd turn my radio up louder
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To hear Johnny Cash Walk The Line

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Waylon sang a song about Texas
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Willie's Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
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Bocephus sings a song about Dixie
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Lefty taught us all how to sing

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Hats off to hard riding cowboys
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Riding some where tonight
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Hats off to hard riding cowboys
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Wanted  dead or alive

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Charlie ran the devil out of Georgia
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Skynyrd sang sweet home Alabam
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The Ahlman brothers taught us how to ramble
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And to Tucker boys showed us how to jam

Repeat #4
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The stage is set tonight up in Heaven
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Rebas band is there with Patsy Cline
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And all around are cowboys and cowgirls
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And thanks to them the music's still alive

Repeat #4