Ode To The Little Shack Out Back
Recorded by Bobby Bare
Written by Billy Ed Wheeler
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They passed an ordinance in the town
They said we'd have to tear it down
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That little old shack out back so dear to me
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Though the health department said its day was over and dead
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It will stand forever in my memory
Don't let them tear that little brown building down
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Don't let them tear that precious building down
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Don't let them tear that dear old building down
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There's not another like it in the country or the town
It was not so long ago that I went tripping through the snow
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Out to that house behind my old hound dog
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Where I would sit me down to rest like a snowbird on his nest
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And I'd read that Sears and Roebuck catalog
Oh I would hum a happy tune peeping through the quarter moon
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As my daddy's kin had done so much before
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It was in that quiet spot daily cares could be forgot
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And it gave the same relief to rich and poor
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Now it was not a castle fair but I could dream of future there
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Build my castle to the yellow jackets drone
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I could orbit round the sun fight with General Washington
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Or be a king upon a golden throne
It wasn't fancy built at all we had newspapers on the wall
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It was air-conditioned in the wintertime
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Oh it was just an humble hut but its door was never shut
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And a man could get inside without a dime
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