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Everyone considered him the coward of the county

He

D never stood one single time to prove the county wrong

His mama named him tommy

But folks just called him yellow

Something always told me they were reading tommy wrong

He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison

I looked after tommy

'Cause he was by brother

S son

I still recall the final words my brother said to tommy

Son

My life is over

But yours has just begun

Promise me son not to do the things I

Ve done

Walk away from trouble if you can

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 everyone

And tommy

S love was becky

In her arms he didn

T have to prove he was a man

One day while he was working

The gatlin boys came calling

They took turns at becky

There was three of them

Tommy opened the door and saw his becky crying

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 this word again

Promise me son not to do the things I

Ve done

Walk away from trouble if you can

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 bar room

One of them got up and met him half way cross the floor

When tommy turned around they said

Hey look old yellow

S leaving

But you could

Ve heard a pin drop when tommy stopped and locked the door

Twenty years of crawling were bottled up inside him

He would hold nothing back he let

Em have it all

When tommy left the bar room

Not a gatlin boy was standing

He said

This one

S for becky

As he watched the last one fall

Now hear him say

I promised you dad not to do the things you

Ve 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 should hope you understand

Sometimes you gotta fight when you

Re a man

Everyone considered him the coward of the county