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Oh now my brother's been taken away |
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Gone are the old times when we used to say |
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Oh a woman was younger she knew what to do |
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Oh but I look around me, now that's not so |
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I'm lost on that open road no peace do I find |
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Maybe the wind'll blow a melody and ease my mind |
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But soon love is broken, they'll take you away |
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Oh the wars they been growing as no relief |
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And the old men who ruled them oh they're just like thieves |
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They rob from the sunshine, oh the air ain't so clean |
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Our rivers are dirty where once we could see |
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A smile from your lady friend looking down |
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Look at that river hey did you ever shiver |
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Well the earth is broken there is no one to save |
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I remember quite freely only yesterday |
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Ah the letter that I read from you read this way |
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Take care lonesome Timmy, ah don't you start |
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Thinking you're the only one year that's gone |
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Out on your lonesome road hey lend a hand to your friend |
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Yes he's just as lonely and the wind keeps you cold |
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Remember the rivers that once did flow clean |
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Ah sometimes I wonder how this old world keeps spinning 'round |
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All the old folks have gone west, Lord preparing to die |
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All except for a few of us hangers on |
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Living each day with trivial hearts |
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We just stop once in a while cry over the news |
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In some foreign far city your brother's shot down |
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Because there was a reason a gun had a hand |
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And the old man killed youth, squeezed down its hope |
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Now I'm just waiting brother waiting for the land |
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Soon in my country there won't be a friend |
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Each one is trying so hard to defend |
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That one one last heartbeat before he's tugged away |
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Lost in the mechanized efficient world logical skies |
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Ah but no song was written on without a tear in your eyes |
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Are we the last ones, the last ones to try |
