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[ar:Dave Alvin] |
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[ti:Gary, Indiana 1959] |
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Gary, Indiana 1959 - Dave Alvin |
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I'm old weak and grey and i'm running out of time |
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Yeah but you should have seen me brother |
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When i was young and in my prime |
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Back in gary indiana in 1959 |
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I was a steel working man with 2 kids and loving wife |
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And the union was strong smokestacks burning day and night |
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Back in gary indiana in 1959 |
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But then the accountants and lawyers and bosses at u s steel |
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Sent down the word we had to take their rotten deal |
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But from birmingham to pueblo oakland to allentown |
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The workers got together and we shut the big boys down |
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The president and supreme court tried to force us off the line |
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Back in gary indiana in 1959 |
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The 59 years disappeared in the blink of an eye |
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And i feel like a stranger in world that isn't mine |
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My dear wife died my kids all moved away |
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Cause there's nothing round here to make them want to stay |
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Cause the factories are in ruins decent jobs are hard to find |
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And you can't get ahead no matter how hard you try |
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Cause the big boys make the rules tough luck for everyone else |
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And out on the streets brother it's every man for himself |
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I still remember when we marched side by side |
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Back in gary indiana in 1959 |
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Don't bury my body brother when it's my time to die |
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Just throw me in that smelter let my ashes fly |
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Back home to gary indiana in 1959 |
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Back to gary indiana in 1959 |
