Coward Of The County Lyric Kenny Rogers 20 GREATEST HITS

Ev'ryone considered him the coward of the county.
He'd never stood one single
time to prove the county wrong.
His mama named him Tommy, the folks just
called him yellow,
But something always told me they were reading Tommy
wrong.

He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison.
I took
care of Tommy 'cause he was my brother's son.
I still recall the final words
my brother said to Tommy:
"Son, my life is over, but yours is just
begun.

Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done.
Walk away from
trouble if you can.
Now it won't mean you're weak if you turn the other
cheek.
I hope you're old enough to understand:
Son, you don't have to
fight to be a man."

There's someone for ev'ryone and Tommy's love was
Becky.
In her arms he didn't have to prove he was a man.
One day while he
was workin' the Gatlin boys came callin'.
They took turns at Becky.... There
was three of them!

Tommy opened up the door and saw his Becky
cryin'.
The torn dress, the shattered look was more than he could
stand.
He reached above the fireplace and took down his daddy's
picture.
As his tears fell on his daddy's face, he heard these words
again:

"Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done.
Walk away
from trouble if you can.
Now it won't mean you're weak if you turn the other
cheek.
I hope you're old enough to understand:
Son, you don't have to
fight to be a man."

The Gatlin boys just laughed at him when he walked
into the barroom.
One of them got up and met him halfway 'cross the
floor.
When Tommy turned around they said, "Hey look! ol' yellow's
leavin'."
But you coulda heard a pin drop when Tommy stopped and blocked the
door.

Twenty years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him.
He wasn't
holdin' nothin' back; he let 'em have it all.
When Tommy left the barroom not
a Gatlin boy was standin'.
He said, "This one's for Becky," as he watched the
last one fall.
And I heard him say,

"I promised you, Dad, not to do
the things you done.
I walk away from trouble when I can.
Now please don't
think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek,
and Papa, I sure hope you
understand:
Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man."

Ev'ryone
considered him the coward of the county.







 

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