Karaoke Track: Coward Of The County by Kenny Rogers (JVC)

award of the County

Lyrics 8x Music by
Roger Bowling 8x Billy Edd Wheeler
(03 1979 Roger Bowling Music!
Sleepy Hollow Music

Everyone considered him
the coward of the county.
He&#39;d never stood one single time

to prove the county wrong.

His mama named him Tommy.
but folks just called him yellow.
Somethin&#39; always told me

they were readin&#39; Tommy wrong.

He was only ten years old
when his daddy died in prison.
I looked after Tommy

&#39;cause he was my brother&#39;s son.

I still recall the final words
my brother said to Tommy.

Son. my life is over

but yours has just begun.&#39;

(J.

Promise me. son

not to do the things I&#39;ve done.

Walk away from trouble

if you can.

It won&#39;t mean you&#39;re weak
if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you&#39;re old enough

to understand.

Son. you don&#39;t have to fight

to be a man.&#39;

There&#39;s someone

for everyone and Tommy&#39;s love

was Becky.

In her arms he didn&#39;t have

to prove he was a man.

One day while he was workin&#39;
the Gatlin boys came callin&#39;.
They took turns at Becky

and there was three of them.

Tommy opened up the door
and saw his Becky eryin&#39;.
The torn dress. the shattered look

was more than he could see.

He reached above the fireplace
and took down his daddy&#39;s picture.
As tears fell on his daddy&#39;s face.

he heard these words again.

&#39;Promise me. son

not to do the things I&#39;ve done.

Walk away from trouble

if you can.&#39;

&#39;It won&#39;t mean you&#39;re weak
if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you&#39;re old enough

to understand.

The Gatlin boys just laughed at him
as he walked into the bar room.
One of them got up and met him

halfway across the floor.

When Tommy turned around

they said.

hey look. old Yellow&#39;s leavin.

But you could have heard a pin drop
when Tommy stopped

and locked the door.

Twenty years of crawlin&#39;
was bottled up inside him.
He wasn&#39;t holdin&#39; nothin&#39; back.

he let them have it all.

When Tommy left the bar room.
not a Gatlin boy was standing.
He said. this one&#39;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&#39;ve done.

I walk away from trouble
when I can.
Now please don&#39;t think I&#39;m weak.

I couldn&#39;t turn the other cheek.

And papa.

I sure hope you understand.

Sometimes you gotta&#39; fight

when you&#39;re a man.

Everyone considered him

the coward of the county.