Beckett's Back 40
By Rio Grand
7/18/2010
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In Knox County nobody was famous
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Just a map dot that people passed thru
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Everybody grew corn and tomatoes, yeah
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At least as far as we knew
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Old man Beckett on 200 acres
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Just like the rest of our neighbors
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He seemed like the salt of the earth
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But we all knew something was different
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When the market hit bottom that year
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While the rest of the county was starvin'
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He brought a brand new John Deere
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Well that rumor mill started churning
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Down at the Lucky Dog Cafe
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And it spread thru our church congregation
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When he threw a grand in the plate
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Had his lotto numbers gone lucky
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Or did some rich relative die
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Where on God's earth did he get the money
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And who installed that Jacuzzi outside
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Bridge:
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One night after fishin with all of the fellas
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Curiosity got the best of us
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So we crept thru his corn rows with flashlights and high hopes
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To see what the truth really was
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Till we were stopped by a shot from his gun, run
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We scattered in every direction
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Grateful to get out alive
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What happened that night was never mentioned
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Till the day fate arrived
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With helicopters and squad cars
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They completely surrounded his place
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They cut down all of his cash crops
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I can still see the shame on his face
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As they hauled him away in those handcuffs
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For growin' what he shouldn't grow
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He said "Careful kids one day you'll end up
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Reapin' the seeds that you sew
In Knox county nobody was famous
Just a map dot that people passed thru
Everybody grew corn and tomatoes, yeah
At least as far as we knew
