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Well, today has been a sad and lonesome day |
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Yeah, today has been a sad and lonesome day |
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I'm just sitting here thinking with my mind a million miles away |
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Well, they're doing the double shuffle, throwing sand on the floor |
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They're doing the double shuffle, they're throwing sand on the floor |
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When I left my longtime darling, she was standing in the door |
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Well, my pa he died and left me, my brother got killed in the war |
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Well, my pa he died and left me, my brother got killed in the war |
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My sister she ran off and got married, never was heard of anymore |
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Samantha Brown lived in my house for 'bout four or five months |
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Samantha Brown lived in my house for 'bout four or five months |
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Don't know how it looked to other people, I never slept with her even once |
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Well the road washed out, weather not fit for man or beast |
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Well the road washed out, weather not fit for man or beast |
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Funny, the things you have the hardest time parting with, are the things you need the least |
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Well, I'm forty miles from the mill, I'm dropping it into overdrive |
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I'm forty miles from the mill, I'm dropping it into overdrive |
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Set my dial on the radio, I wish my mother was still alive |
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I seen your lover-man coming, coming across the barren fields |
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I see your lover-man coming, coming across the barren fields |
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He not a gentleman at all, he's rotten to the core, he's a coward and he's |
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steel |
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Well my captain he's decorated, he's well-schooled and he's skilled |
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My captain he's decorated, he's well-schooled and he's skilled |
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He's not sentimental, don't bother him at all; how many of his pals have been killed. |
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Last night the wind was whispering, I was trying to make out what it was |
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Last night the wind was whispering something, I was trying to make out what it was |
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Yeh I tell myself something's coming, but it never does |
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I'm going to spare the defeated, I'm going to speak to the crowd |
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I'm going to spare the defeated, 'cause I'm going to speak to the crowd |
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I'm going to teach peace to the conquered, I'm going to tame the proud |
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Well, the leaves are rustling in the wood, things are falling off of the shelf |
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Leaves are rustling in the wood, things are falling off the shelf |
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You're gonna need my help sweetheart, you can't make love all by yourself. |
