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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KenHood" data-source="post: 4926764" data-attributes="member: 4413"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed">"Well, folks,"</span></span></span> says Hacker Brass, <span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"Ole' Hacker is hungry, and he don't never pay for his meals, but he's always willing to sing for his supper."</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>He unstraps his banjo and gives it a tap. The instrument transforms into a six string guitar. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">"This here is a little song I wrote after I lost the best job of my life, the sweetest woman I ever loved left me, and I was stripped of my hard-earned divinity."</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>He begins to strum the guitar and sings in a deep, mournful voice...</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">The bars are all closed,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">It's four in the morning.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I must have shut 'em all down</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">By the shape that I'm in.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I lay my head on the reins.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">That ole mule begins brayin'.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">The whole neighborhood knows</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">That Hacker's home drunk again.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">And if drinking don't kill me</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Her memory will.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I can't hold out much longer</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">The way that I feel.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">With the blood from my body</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I could start my own still,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">And if drinking don't kill me</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Her memory will.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">These wild old bones, they move slow,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">But so sure of their footsteps,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">As I trip on the floor</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">And lightly touch down.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Gods, it's been ten bottles</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Since I tried to forget her,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">But the memory still lingers</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Lying here on the ground.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">And if drinking don't kill me</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Her memory will.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I can't hold out much longer</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">The way that I feel.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">With the blood from my body</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I could start my own still,</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">And if drinking don't kill me</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Dayna's memory will.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>Hacker strums the guitar for a final time. A lone tear winds its way through the scars mapping the gnome's face and drips off his chin.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: DarkRed">"Aw, Dayna baby, your Hacker still misses you."</span></span></span></p><p></p><p>[sblock=The Song]"If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)" by George Strait</p><p></p><p>You can listen to it <a href="http://www.actionext.com/names_g/george_jones_lyrics/if_drinking_dont_kill_me_her_memory_will.html" target="_blank">here.</a>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>

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