Uncle Frank Teclado

	  



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They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice 
    Em 
Now we got more electricity than we can ever use 
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They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out 
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But they got paid so there ain’t nothin else to think about 


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Some of them made their living cutting the timber down, 
    Em 
Snaking it one log at a time up the hill and into town. 
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T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast. 
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Lots of men and machinery build a dam and drown the rest. 


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Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek, 
       Em 
Bought fifteen acres when he got back home from overseas. 
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Fifteen rocky acres, figured no one else would want, 
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Till all that backed up water had to have some place to go.  



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Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write. 
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Never held down a job, or needed one in his life. 
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They assured him there’d be work for him in town building cars, it’s already going down 


    G 
The cars never came to town and the roads never got built. 
    Em 
And the price of all that power kept on going straight uphill. 
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The banks around the hollow sold for lakefront property 
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Where Doctors, Lawyers, and Musicians teach their kids to water-ski. 




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Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write. 
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So there was no note or letter found where he died. 
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Just a rope around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it’s side