It Happened Just That Way

Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah



A-well-a yeah yeah yeah yeah, it happened just that way



Well-a



I was born in a boomer's shack



'Bout that far from the railroad track



Choo-choo rattled my window pane



Sheet-iron roof tells me every time it rained



Well-a yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah



A-well-a yeah yeah yeah yeah, it happened just that way



Well-a



I went to a one-room school



Walked to and from the school



I carried lunch in a paper sack



It was one mile over and two miles back



Well-a yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah



A-well-a yeah yeah yeah yeah, it happened just that way



And now my brother worked hard in the grain



Poppa drove a choo-choo train



One sister was a righteous girl



But the other 'un' was a woman of the world



Well-a yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah



A-well-a yeah yeah yeah yeah, it happened just that way



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