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Billy Overcame His Size (Live In Muskogee, Oklahoma/1969)
Merle Haggard
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We got a brand new song here that we're gonna whip on you
and we hope that you'll like it.
We wrote it especially for this album.
In fact, we wrote it on the way up to Texas
about a week ago, actually, when it was.
Me and Jim Beam and I.W. Harper,
we wrote this little thing.
It's called Billy Overcame His Size.
It goes like this.

♪ Billy never made the football team ♪
♪ cause Billy's size was small. ♪
♪ But Billy's brother was a mighty lad ♪
♪ and played a lot of high school ball. ♪
♪ And Billy's daddy never favored him. ♪
♪ He catered to the bigger guys. ♪
♪ But later on in a bigger way, Billy overcame his size. ♪
♪ The years flew by and Billy grew, but he never got very big. ♪
♪ We called him Shorty, but he never got mad. ♪
♪ He was always good for a dig. ♪
♪ And we paid no mind when he fell in line ♪
♪ and left with the other guys. ♪
♪ And the sergeant laughed at his skinny frame, ♪
♪ but Billy overcame his size. ♪
♪ Billy overcame his size. Yeah, Billy overcame his size. ♪
♪ Later on in a bigger way, Billy overcame his size. ♪
♪ Billy's brother made a football star and the biggest man in town. ♪
♪ And the scholarship that kept him home never seemed to bring him down. ♪
♪ But on the other hand, his brother Bill put pride in his daddy's eyes. ♪
♪ When he died to save those other men, Billy overcame his size. ♪
♪ Billy overcame his size. Yeah, Billy overcame his size. ♪
♪ When he died to save those other men, Billy overcame his size. ♪
Thank you very much.
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Merle Haggard
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