Gene Autry, my hero
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1. The childhood memories I treasure the most I suppose,
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are
the Saturday afternoons spent at the town picture show.
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I worked all day long in the
fields but at night I would dream
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of
seeing Gene Autry go ridin' across the big screen.
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2. Saturday mornings I'd walk twenty miles or more,
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twelve
o'clock noon found the first one in line at the door.
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'Cause all week I'd work but
today I would fulfil my dream,
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and
I'd see Gene Autry go ridin' across the big screen.
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The man in the white cowboy
hat was a hero to me,
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he
was then, he is now, and I guess he always will be.
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Time takes away many things,
but it can't take a dream,
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and I can still see
him go ridin' across the big screen.
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3. When as a kid from our shack on the desert I'd roam,
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my
daddy would whip me 'cause I'd never be around home.
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But mom understood me, I know,
cause she'd smile when I'd say,
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Gene Autry and I had been
rounding up outlaws all day.
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The man in the white cowboy
hat was a hero to me,
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he
was then, he is now, and I guess he always will be.
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And every so often I go back
in time and I dream,
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and I
see Gene Autry go ridin' across the big screen,
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and I
see Gene Autry go ridin' across the big screen.
(orig. = capo 2nd) (Marty
Robbins)