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HEROES AND HORSE THIEVES

VERSE 1
If you've got relatives by the dozens
Chance are pretty good -- cousins married cousins
Looking at your family -- studying heredity
Don't know what you'll see
Down in your ge-ne-alo-gy

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When you shake your family tree
Never knows just what you might see
Doesn't matter what mama said, or what she believes
There's good, there's bad, there's heroes and horse thieves
Give the family tree a shake, among the fallen leaves
There's good, there's bad, there's heroes and horse thieves
There's good, there's bad, there's heroes and horse thieves

VERSE 2
Prob'ly got shirttail kin -- you never knew
They might stop into town -- to say hello to you
Just because they're family -- treat them cordially
Pretty soon you may see
When they ask for your money

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VERSE 3
(solos)

CHORUS

VERSE 1
If you've got relatives by the dozens
Chance are pretty good -- cousins married cousins
Looking at your family -- studying heredity
Don't know what you'll see
Down in your ge-ne-alo-gy

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OUTRO
When you shake your family tree
Never knows just what you might see
Doesn't matter what mama said, or what she believes
There's good, there's bad, there's heroes and horse thieves
Give the family tree a shake, among the fallen leaves
There's good, there's bad, there's heroes and horse thieves
There's good, there's bad, there's heroes and horse thieves
There's good, there's bad, there's heroes and horse thieves