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Joe Diffie

Joe Logan Diffie (born December 28, 1958) is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. After working as a demo singer in the 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 cuts on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including five number one singles: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man" (his longest-lasting number one, at four weeks) and "Bigger Than the Beatles". In addition to these cuts, he has 12 other top ten singles and ten other top 40 hits on the same chart. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw and Jo Dee Messina, and has recorded with Mary Chapin Carpenter, George Jones and … more »

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1990

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He had plastic bags wrapped around his shoes 
He was covered with the evening news 
Had a pair of old wool socks on his hands
The bank sign was flashin' five below
It was freezing rain and spitting snow 
He was curled up behind some garbage cans
I was afraid that he was dead I gave him a gentle shake
When he opened up his eyes I said old man are you okay
He said:

I just crawled out of a cottonwood tree
I was runnin' from some honey bees 
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze after jumpin' into Calico Creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
'Cause I was almost home

And he said I was just comin' round the barn
'Bout the time you grabbed my arm 
And I heard mama holler son hurry up
And I was close enough for my own nose to smell fresh cobbler on the stove
And I saw daddy loadin' up the truck
Cane poles on the tailgate bobbers blowin' in the wind 
Since July of 55 that's as close as I've been 

Yeah I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree
I was runnin' from some honey bees
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze 
After jumpin' into Calico Creek
I was walkin' down a old dirt 
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed 
Man I wish you'd just left me alone
I was almost home

I said old man your gonna freeze to death let me drive you to the mission
He said boy if you'd left me alone right now id be fishin'

I just climbed out of a cottonwood tree 
I was runnin' from some honey bees 
Drip dryin' in the summer breeze 
After jumpin' into Calico Creek
I was walkin' down an old dirt road
Past a field of hay that had just been mowed
Man I wish you'd just left me alone 

Man I wish you'd just left me alone...I was almost home
I was almost home

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