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 I had a hand me down ride painted rattle can red

  Second hand tires with poor boy tread

  Made a lot of almost love in the bed of that

  Truck that got stuck a lot

 Just letter jacket boys singing Jerry Jeff songs

  Drinking everything we could get our hands on

  Learning 'bout right by doin' it wrong

  Hopin' we didn't get caught

 And we spent what little bit of money we had

 On wintergreen Skoal and main street gas

  Go get your girl, go make the drag

 If you're lucky you can take her cross the rail road tracks

 Where the man in the moon works his magic

 On the second runner up of the 4H pageant

  Seems like yester- day even though

 That was fourteen hundred and fifty two beers ago

 Skipped that town on my birthday

 For eighteen years I was headed that way

 Where old red stopped I just stayed

 In a room without a view

 I met a one look girl in a two bit bar

  I had a place, she had a car

  I won her heart with my guitar

 I sang her the homesick blues 'bout

  Spendin' what little bit of money we had

 On wintergreen Skoal and main street gas

  Go get your girl, go make the drag

 If you're lucky you can take her cross the railroad tracks

 Where the man in the moon works his magic

 On the second runner up of the 4H pageant

  Seems like yester- day even though

 That was fifteen hundred and sixty two beers ago

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  Spendin' what little bit of money we had

 On wintergreen Skoal and main street gas

 And go get your girl and go make the drag

 If you're lucky you can take her cross the railroad tracks

 Where the man in the moon works his magic

 On the second runner up of the 4H pageant

  Seems like yester- day even though

 That was sixteen hundred and fifty two beers

 A whole lot of highway, a whole lot of years

  Sixteen hundred and fifty three beers ago