A Cardboard Pillow chords by Mack Vickery
Verse 1
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This is a true story
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of the loneliest picture of
life I've ever seen.
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The date, 9 -29 -73,
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Memphis, Tennessee.
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A cardboard pillow and
a concrete bed.
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That's where the old man lays his head
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A lonely soul that no one needs
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On a cardboard pillow
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to rhyme to sleep
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I stood there in sorrow
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as he tried to speak
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But the old man just mumbled God,
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he was too weak
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from all the road that his life had led
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To this cardboard pillow
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and this concrete bed
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I stood there thinking,
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that maybe someday,
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this might be me,
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where this old man lay.
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I wondered how many
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dreams and heartaches
the old man went through
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to get where he lay.
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Then I said a prayer,
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and I left him to sleep
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On his cardboard pillow
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and his bed of concrete
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God bless you, sir, wherever you sleep.
A Cardboard Pillow
Mack Vickery
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