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I had an uncle name of Matthew...he was his father's only boy

Born just south of Colby, Kansas...he was his mother's pride and joy

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Yes, and joy was just the thing he was raised on

Love was just a way to live and die

Gold was just a windy Kansas wheat field

Blue was just a Kansas summer sky

And all the stories that he told me back when I was just a lad

All the memories that he gave me...all the good times that he had

Growin' up a Kansas farmboy...life was mostly havin' fun

Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule, beneath the sun

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Well, I guess there were some hard times and I'm told some years were lean

They had a storm in '47...twister came and stripped 'em clean

He lost the farm and lost his family...he lost the wheat, he lost his home

But he found the family bible and faith as solid as a stone

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So he came to live at our house...and he came to work the land

He came to ease my daddy's burdens and he came to be my friend

So I wrote this down for Matthew...it's for him this song is sung

Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders behind a mule, beneath the sun

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