Hoppy's Gone

Album: King of the Road (1973)
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  • Hang it up boys,
    Yesterdays and dreams and matinees
    Like tinker toys they fell apart today
    Well almost anyway
    Hoppy's gone

    Bed em Down, boys,
    Put your cowboy boots and guns away
    The broomstick horse just up and died today
    And so did saturdays
    Hoppy's gone

    Rock-a-bye yesterday
    Winds blow and cradles will fall
    And down comes the curtain
    And all of a lifetime of mem'ries live on
    Hoppy's gone, boys, hoppy's gone

    Hang it all up boys
    Yesterdays and dreams and matinees
    Like tinker toys they came apart today
    Best just let it lay
    Hoppy's gone
    Rock-a-bye yesterday,
    Winds will blow and cradles will fall
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  • Jim Young from Clarkston Wa. I had never heard that song till a week ago. Was it ever played much on the radio?
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