---- Written by Tom T. Hall and Miss Dixie Hall ----
---- on Alecia Nugent's Album  A Little Girl...A Big Four-Lane ----

-- 1st VERSE --
C                            F         C
When I got the word that our Uncle Joe died
                                      G 
I did what we all did, I sat down and cried
    C                   F            C 
Got into my car, headed home for the hills
                                G           C
Back home to Kentucky where the funeral was held

-- CHORUS --
F                      C 
I cried all the way to Kentucky
C
His memory so sweet to recall
F
Uncle Joe lived such a good life
D                     G
Love and respected by all
C
His jokes were the talk of the county
C                          F  
He knew how to make people laugh
F                      C
I cried all the way to Kentucky
C                 G           C
And then I smiled all the way back

--2ND VERSE --
C                            F         C
The Preacher said Joe was a wonderful guy
                                      G 
And God has a project for him in the sky
    C                   F            C 
His stories are binging the Angels a smile
                         G           C
To turn us in new ways to cheer us awhile

-- 3RD VERSE --
C                            F         C
Joe once brought a skunk into Sunday School class
                                      G 
That even made grouchy ole Deacon Jones laugh
    C                   F            C 
He says it's been fixed and it smells like a rose
                                  G           C
All of you good christians turn loose of your nose

-- CHORUS --
F                      C 
I cried all the way to Kentucky
C
His memory so sweet to recall
F
Uncle Joe lived such a good life
D                     G
Love and respected by all
C
His jokes were the talk of the county
C                          F  
He knew how to make people laugh
F                      C
I cried all the way to Kentucky
C                 G           C
And then I smiled all the way back


-- 4TH VERSE --
C                            F         C
That Halloween night no one meant any harm
                                      G 
When the outhouse was perched up on Grandpa's old barn
   C                   F            C 
I think of those things when I tell Joe goodbye
                         G           C
A smile on my lips and a tear in my eye

-- CHORUS --
F                      C 
I cried all the way to Kentucky
C
His memory so sweet to recall
F
Uncle Joe lived such a good life
D                     G
Love and respected by all
C
His jokes were the talk of the county
C                          F  
He knew how to make people laugh
F                      C
I cried all the way to Kentucky
C                 G           C
And then I smiled all the way back

F                      C
I cried all the way to Kentucky
C                 G           C
And then I smiled all the way back