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[Verse 1]
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My uncle Ted died wealthy
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All that money was hard won
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My uncle Ted died lonely
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In the end he pushed away everyone


[Verse 2]
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It was in the town of Andrews
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It was nineteen sixty-three
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He wed his high school sweetheart
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Mom's sister, Almadeen


[Verse 3]
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They put themselves through college
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Way down in Alpine
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Where the trains snake through the desert
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And the coyotes echoes chime


[Verse 4]
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Deeny was a teacher
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and Ted he worked the fields
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He-got-the oilmen what they asked for
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And-cut-himself in on the deal


[Verse 5]
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When Teddy made the big time
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We-looked-up to him with pride
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No one then suspected
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What-he-had goin' on the side


[Verse 6]
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When he stayed late at the office

He never bothered to explain
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And when I saw what he was sellin'
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Well it was more than pumps and chain


[Verse 7]
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I guess I wasn't too surprised
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When he brought home the office girl
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But Deeny was devastated
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When they tore apart her world


[Verse 8]
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You could tell this girl was trouble

But she played on Teddy's pride
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Later on we found out
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her-first-husband was a suicide


[Verse 9]
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She-turned him against us
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One by one we drifted away
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My uncle made his choices
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There was nothing we could say


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[Verse 10]
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In a hospital in Houston

With his Texas trophy wife
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And her nephew lawyer waitin'
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As Teddy clung to life


[Verse 11]
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She would not leave his bedside
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Till he signed the brand new will
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She's livin' up in Dallas now
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In a mansion on a hill


[Verse 12]
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There was no one else around him

In the hour of his death
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It was my hand that he trusted

When he took his dyin' breath


[Verse 13]
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From a man who left his family
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From this man once so proud
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Some men like an apology
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That-you-could never say out loud


[Verse 14]
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My uncle Ted died wealthy

All that money was hard won
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My uncle Ted died lonely
       G7                     F   C
In the end he pushed away everyone