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I've been gone a long time |
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Lost in the seven seas. |
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Sail on, don't you come back |
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Until you learn the birds and the bees. |
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Who will you find waiting for you, |
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Squeeze blood into [in the ?] wine. |
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Left to call my preacher |
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And my very lovely wife. |
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Chorus (1) |
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I said, hey now, knocked down, why'd you do it, |
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Roll me like a hurricane. |
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All is a bust and |
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I'm numb, like novocaine. |
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Who done it, what's up, you said, |
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Sell me out why don't you boy, |
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I'm alone, severely broken, |
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I'm a dislocated boy. |
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I have thought to rise my dictions |
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And I've suffocated my pride.(Be)fore you and |
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I embarked on |
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One hell of a ride. |
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Boy, I've had these blues |
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Since I been six years old. |
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But tell me don't you worry(A)bout my very heavy load. |
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Chorus (2) |
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And I said, knock down, drag out, bar fight, |
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Knuckles on the floor. and there's shattered glass, |
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And one hell of a scar. |
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Broke down and hungry, you said so. |
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Sell me out, why don't you boy, |
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I'm alone, severely broken, |
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I'm a dislocated boy. |
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All I need is my old guitar, |
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And I'll play you the best damn blues. |
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Heavy affections, and |
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I hate to lose. |
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Thirty-five years ago, |
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I was born on |
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Robert Johnson's. |
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It's all been for you baby. |
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I'm gonna make it back someday. |
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Repeat Chorus (1) |
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So tell me about your working class hero, baby |
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Tell me 'bout your |
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Mine was born in |
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Mississippi, 'round 1923. |
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Blue collar flannel shirts |
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Was my Father's way. |
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Worked in a factory,' |
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Til his dying day. |
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Repeat Chorus (2) |