Don't Ask, Just Wave

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A honky-tonk shuffle about country neighbors and what they put by the road: five-foot steel chickens at the gate, and a Mineola fence lined with catfish heads. Out here you don't ask, you just wave.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Took a Sunday drive down a county road,
Windows down and the radio on,
Saw a chicken by a front gate post,
Five feet tall, made of steel, and not alone.
There's another one two gates down,
And a third one past the bend,
Five-foot hens with a steel-eyed stare,
Guarding the road to the end.

[Chorus]
Out here you don't ask, you just wave,
Whatever's on the gatepost or the fence.
They do what they do and they do it with pride,
And somehow it all makes sense.

[Verse 2]
Back in Mineola, the kid next door
Caught a catfish big as a boy,
Then he hung that head on the fence out front
With a look of pure country joy.
Then came another, and another one,
Till the fence ran a row of whiskered smiles,
You could count his whole summer on that fence,
Stretched out for a country mile.

[Chorus]
Out here you don't ask, you just wave,
Whatever's on the gatepost or the fence.
They do what they do and they do it with pride,
And somehow it all makes sense.

[Bridge]
Now I'm looking at my own front gate,
Kind of empty, kind of plain,
Wondering what I'd put up there
To stop the traffic on this lane.

[Chorus]
Out here you don't ask, you just wave,
Whatever's on the gatepost or the fence.
They do what they do and they do it with pride,
And somehow it all makes sense.

[Spoken]
Five feet. Steel. Don't ask.

[End]

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