Lyrics

Billy Jack and Betty

Mark Narmore/Mark Carson (c) 2006

Was our first stop on Halloween
Always cheered for my little league team
She made the best brownies on the block
I can see him there in that John Deere hat
Our only pets were their old cats
Their old El Camino, I thought it?d never stop

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Today there was a moving van
I should have given them a hand
But I didn?t know how to say goodbye
They saw my broken arms and graduations,
Proms and wedding invitations
Fifty years of history drove away
?Cause Billy Jack and Betty moved today

They?d invite me into their house
I?d drink cool aid on that orange couch
Asked me how many girlfriends that I had
Billy Jack told me stories about the war
Scared the hell out of this a little boy
As he walked away, I?d hear him laugh

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Now it seems we?re always building fences
We don?t even know our neighbors anymore
But with Billy Jack and Betty I
remember
You?d always see a smiling face and
open back door

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