The Bird Hunters
Turnpike Troubadours

The covey took wing

Shotguns a singing

A pointing dog down in the old logging road

Danny got three

And looked back a grinning

I fumbled around and I tried to reload

The country was cold

With the sun westward sinking

It's good to be back in this place

With my hands around

A Belgian made Browning

My mind on the lines of her face

Well now Danny's my buddy

We grew up like family

Hunted this timber before we could drive

The old English pointer

He once belonged to me

But I gave him up when I moved in '05

Off to the girl

Off to the city

Off on a wing and a chance

Hell I thought it'd play out

Just like some story

We fell in love at a rodeo dance

She said go on back to Cherokee County

Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb

Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me

Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home

Dan says, Look at old Jim

A dozen Decembers

Behind him no worse for the wear

And your time spent in Tulsa

Did not help your shooting

And look at the gray in your hair

How good does it feel?

You belong in these hills

It's best that you let it all end

If you'd have married that girl

You'd have married her family

You dodged a bullet my friend

She said go on back to Cherokee County

Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb

Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me

Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home

I was beginning

To deal with it ending

The old dog had pointed while part of me died

And a flutter of feathers

Then a shotgun to shoulder

I thought of the Fourth of July

She'll be home on the Fourth of July

I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July

Dan says, Hell of a shot

Looks like you've still got it

That's what we came here to do

It's light enough still

At the foot of the hill

We could kick up a single or two

She said go on back to Cherokee County

Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb

Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me

Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home

Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home

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