MARIVIC DIMALIGLABITAD
INTELLIGENT AND DISCIPLINED FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS
COWARD OF THE COUNTY By: Kenny Rogers
EVERYONE ________HIM A COWARD OF THE COUNTY HE NEVER _______ONE SINGLE TIME TO __________THE COUNTY WRONG
HIS MAMA ________HIM TOMMY, THE FOLKS JUST _______HIM “YELLOW” SOMETHING ALWAYS _____ME THEY WERE READING TOMMY WRONG
HE WAS ONLY TEN YEARS OLD WHEN HIS DADDY _________IN PRISON AND I ______AFTER TOMMY FOR HE WAS MY BROTHER’S SON
I STILL RECALL THE FINAL WORDS MY BROTHERS SAID TO TOMMY: “SON,MY LIFE IS OVER,BUT YOURS HAS JUST __________.
CHORUS: …PROMISE ME SON NOT TO DO THE THINGS I’VE DONE ____________AWAY FROM TROUBLE IF YOU CAN NOW,IT DON’T MEAN YOUR WEAK IF YOU ______THE OTHER CHEEK I HOPE YOU’RE OLD ENOUGH TO _____ SON, YOU DON’T HAVE TO _____ TO BE A MAN.
THERE’S SOMEONE FOR EVERYONE AND TOMMY’S LOVE IS BECKY.
IN HER ARMS HE DIDN’T HAVE TO ______HE WAS A MAN. ONE DAY WHILE HE WAS WALKING, THE GAMBLIN’ BOYS ________CALLING. THEY ______TO BECKY AND THERE WERE THREE OF THEM.
TOMMY _______UP THE DOOR AND ________HIS BECKY CRYING WITH TORN DRESS AND SHATTERED LOOK WAS MORE THAN HE COULD STAND HE _______ABOVE THE FIREPLACE AND _________DOWN HIS DADDY’S PICTURE AS THE TEARS _________IN HIS DADDY’S FACE, HE _______THESE WORDS AGAIN.
…PROMISE ME SON NOT TO DO THE THINGS I’VE DONE __________AWAY FROM TROUBLE IF YOU CAN NOW IT DON’T MEAN YOUR WEAK IF YOU_______THE OTHER CHEEK I HOPE YOU’RE OLD ENOUGH TO _________ SON, YOU DON’T HAVE TO _______TO BE A MAN
THE GAMBLIN’ BOYS JUST _____AT HIM WHEN HE _____INTO THE BAR ROOM ONE OF THEM GOT UP AND _____HIM HALF WAY ‘CROSS THE FLOOR WHEN TOMMY TURNED THEY SAID: “HEY LOOK! OLD YELLOW’S LEAVIN’! BUT YOU COULD HAVE HEARD THE PIN DROP WHEN TOMMY ______AND ____THE DOOR.
TWENTY YEARS OF CRAWLIN’ HAS BATTLED UP INSIDE HIM HE WOUDN’T HOLD HIM NOTHING; HE LET THEM HAVE IT ALL WHEN TOMMY LEFT THE BAR ROOM,NOT A GAMBLIN’ BOY ___STANDING HE SAID;”THIS ONE’S FOR BECKY”
AS HE __________THE LAST MAN _____ AND I HEARD HIM SAY:
I ____________PROMISED YOU DAD NOT TO DO THE THINGS YOU’VE DONE I’LL WALK AWAY FROM TROUBLE WHEN I CAN NOW,PLEASE DON’T THINK I’M WEAK, I DIDN’T TURN THE OTHER CHEEK PAPA,I SHOULD HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND
SOMETIMES YOU’VE GOT TO FIGHT WHEN YOU’RE A MAN
…EVERYONE _______ HIM THE COWARD OF THE COUNTY