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Artist: Shakey Graves
Canonical path: /shakey-graves/family-tree
Related lyric paths: 6
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Family Tree
Read Family Tree lyrics by Shakey Graves on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Family Tree
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Only dead folks get my jokes
Storm the castle and swim the moat
Across the world lives a big old goat
Who's got nine eyes and breathes nothing but smoke
And he loves lilly but lilly loves me
And lilly loves shelia but shelia loves me
So lets go out back and plant a family tree
We'll be as happy as a couple motherfuckers can be
Load your pistol to shoot the breeze
Go to the garden tell the birds and bees
Not to bother the girls or harass the boys
Busk for your breakfast baby make some noise
We'll wake up grandpa wake up jane
Throw a couple rocks at their window pane
If daddy gives me money ill drink my milk
Got women to scare
Got a world to tilt
There's no one in the world but you for me
So lets go out back and plant a family tree
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Shakey Graves performs "Family Tree", and this lyric page sits inside the Shakey Graves catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to Alexander, City Born and Big Time Nashville Star (feat. Esme Patterson) with a short reason for opening each page next.
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