Verse 1: 
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      There's an old familiar hillside overlooking Emhouse,Texas 
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      Where i left some childhood memories layin' round 
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      I can almost hear the singing,i can still remember praying 
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      At them old campground meetings eatin' chicken on the ground 


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      With them hallelujahs ringin',everybody shoutin',singin' 
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      Give me that old time religion,Jesus loves me,this i know 
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      When life was finger-lickin' good and God lived in our neighborhood 
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      At them old campground meetin's eatin' chicken on the ground  
 
Verse 2: 
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      I can still remember feelin' all that happiness inside me 
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      When i praised the Lord and laid my burdens down 
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      But that chicken must have tasted better than the word of God 
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      'Cause it went slippin' through my fingers and rollin' on the ground 
 
Chorus. 
 
Verse 3: 
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      I reckon everyone of us can call back or remember 
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      When the taste and smell of youth was all around 
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      And i reckon in our own way everyone of us is payin' now 
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      For eatin' chicken  and not listenin' to old Parson Brown 
 
Chorus (x3).