Karaoké The Bird Hunters Turnpike Troubadours

Well the covey took wing shotguns a-singing

A pointing dog down in the old logging road and Danny got three and looked back a-grinning

I fumbled around and I tried to reload the country was cold with the sun westward sinking

It's good to be back in this place with my hands around a Belgian made Browning

My mind on the lines of her face well now Danny's my buddy

We grew up like family hunted this timber before we could drive

And the old English Pointer he once belonged to me but I give him up when I moved in '05

Off with a girl off to the city off on a wing and a chance

Hell, I thought it'd play out just like some story we fell in love at a rodeo dance

She said, go on back to Cherokee County won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb

Says, babe, if you need me

I'll be where you found me go on to hell, honey

I'm headed home

Dan says look at ol' Jim a dozen Decembers behind him no worse for the wear

And your time spent in Tulsa did not help your shooting and look at the gray in your hair

How good does it feel you belong in these hills it's best that you let it all end

If you'd married that girl you'd have married her family you dodged a bullet my friend

She said, go on back to Cherokee County won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb

Says, babe, if you need me

I'll be where you found me go on to hell, honey

I'm headed home

Ah, and I was beginning to deal with it ending the old dog had pointed while part of me died

And a flutter of feathers then a shotgun to shoulder

I thought of the Fourth of July she'll be home on the Fourth of July

I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July

Dan says, hell of a shot looks like you still got it and that's what we came here to do

Well, it's light enough still at the foot of the hill we could kick up a single or two

She said, go on back to Cherokee County won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb

Says, babe, if you need me

I'll be where you found me go on to hell, honey

I'm headed home

Go on to hell, honey

I'm headed home