The Croquet King

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Bobby Jack Miller was a real lady killer from way back
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Word got around, all the women in town called him Brutus
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He was a cross between Charlie Sheen and Pat Sajak
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He wore dark sox, green air walks and Ber-mudas
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Bobby Jack Miller had a knack for the whacking of a croquet ball
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It was fact, when he whacked you could feel it in the back of your ribcage
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Hear what I'm sayin' you could tell who's playin' by the shake of the wall
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With his mallet in the air comin' down you'd swear it was a 12 gauge

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He was a Croquet King (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)
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He got a nine ring, swing (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)
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When he swings that mallet, you can hear it ring,
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he was a Croquet King (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)

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So he took his forte and found him a way, to make a liv-in'
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He was a self made man with a farmer's tan on his neck
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He had a girl named Sophie to carry every and trophy and ribbon
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When it came down to money Bobbie's honey never looked at the check

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He was a Croquet King (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)
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He got a nine ring, swing (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)
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When he swings that mallet, you can hear it ring,
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he was a Croquet King (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)

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Bobby Jack Miller was killed in Manila by a fly ball
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Clobbered by a scamp at a Croquet camp in his honor
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Missed the other players went through a couple of layers of dry wall
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[Rubato] He didn't have a chance,
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it got him in the pants, he was a gon-er

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He was a Croquet King (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)
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He got a nine ring, swing (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)
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When he swings that mallet, you can hear it ring,
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he was a Croquet King (Bobby Jack, Bobby Jack)

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