Capo 1
Intro- D-G x4
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One day little Billy said momma, wheres my dad?
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Fightin back the tears she said I knew one day youd ask
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She walked him down the hallway, to a closet with a safe
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Said I think youll find the answer right here, in these 18 video tapes
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See the doctors told him hed be gone before you were born
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And it broke his heart to know hed never hold you in his arms
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Determined not to let you grow up learnin from mistakes
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He put everything he thought youd need to know, on 18 video tapes
(Chorus)
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Like heres the way you hold a bat,
Be sure to keep that shoulder back
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And when you cast that rod and reel,
Well use your wrist its in the feel,
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Or when you learn to ride your bike
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Ill tell you now that you wont like those training wheels
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But your momma will
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From that day his momma showed him one of them a year
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Sometimes it was almost like his dad was really there
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Sometimes He laughed, sometimes he cried
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But he always walked away
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Havin learned another lesson from his dad, in those 18 video tapes
(CHORUS)
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Like when you shave dont get too close
Lose the hair but leave the nose
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And when your momma gives you my old truck
Dont drive too fast or ride the clutch
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Dont listen to your buddies son
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when the conversation comes to the birds and bees
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Just go to tape 18
