Matthew
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1. Had an uncle named
Matthew, was his father's only boy,
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born
just south of Colby, Kansas, was
his mother's pride and joy.
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Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on,
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love was just the way to live and
die.
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Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield,
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blue was just a Kansas summer sky.
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2. All the stories that he told
me back when I was just a lad,
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all
the memories that he gave me, all the
good times that he had.
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Growin’
up a Kansas farmboy, life was mostly having fun,
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ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule, beneath the sun.
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3. Well, I guess there were
some hard times,
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I'm told some years were lean,
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they
had a storm in '47, a twister
came and stripped them clean.
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He lost the farm and lost his
family,
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he
lost the wheat and lost his home,
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but
he found a family bible, faith as
solid as a stone.
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4. So he came to live at our
house, and he came to work the
land,
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he
came to ease my daddy's burden, and
he came to be my friend.
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So, I wrote this down for
Matthew, and it's for him the song is sung,
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ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule, beneath the sun.
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Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on,
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love was just the way to live and
die.
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Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield,
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blue was just a Kansas summer sky.
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(John Denver)