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"Missouri Sunshine"
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Verse
I
I know he's been around the block a time or two
And he's been known to be late when the rent was due.
Sometimes his lies grow longer than a country mile
But the devil that dances in his eyes always makes me smile.
Chorus
He's never met a stranger, a fast talker, an ex-Texas Ranger
He knows everyone in town.
I know when he was younger, fun was six-packs and drive-in hunger.
He was a rebel with a cause.
A tattoo for the love of his mother, he never knew his father.
He was raised on Missouri Sunshine.
Verse II
Back in '68 when his number came up in the mail.
He left a bride behind for a time on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
He came home with a bronze star and a wound that scarred his soul
He doesn't talk much about the year that that war stole.
Chorus
Verse III
Now he's in his forties but he still has the heart of that kid.
Cruising around town on his Harley reving up on the grid.
His son's as old as he was when he first fell in love.
Now his wife has told him they're having another son.
Copyright © 1997 Kathy Forste