Well every spring for five long years i've been Chasin' down the same longbeard It's get up early and I give him all I got Got me an old box call and a brand new choke And, this spring it ain't no joke Im gonna, fool him good and finally get a shot
Well he gobbled his head off on the roost I was just about to cook his goose He was comin' in, then its like he hit a wall
Cause he's hung up, down in the holler I give up, a couple hundred dollars If you break that strut and come in on a string Well he must have found a new girlfriend And that dang old hen wont let him come in He's hung up down in the holler again Oh yeah
Well I, slipped around to the other side Just to let him think I let him slide Give him an hour or two to do his thing About ten o'clock I shot him a call And he, hammered back and I took off And I set up on the south side of the spring Well he couldn't have been more than eighty yards My old heart was poundin' hard Then it hit me, I'd screwed up again
Cause he's hung up, down in the holler I give up, five hundred dollars If you break that strut and come in on a string Well you'd think by now I'd have more sense Then to call a turkey through a barb wire fence He's hung up down in the holler again Oh yeah
Well I was, feelin' like a dang old fool That turkey done took this boy to school I was, packin' up and headin' back to the truck But I had one more trick up my sleeve The one my granddaddy taught me I knew I was gonna need me a little luck Pulled out my slate call, made a fightin' purr All I seen was beard and spurs He flew the fence and I filled him with number fives
Now he's hung up, down in the holler I strung up, that old boss gobbler When he broke that strut and came in on a string Well he came to fight for his girlfriend Now he's upside down on the hickory limb He's hung up down in the holler again He'll never be hung up in this old holler again