Key: G major
Verse 1
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Well at night he sits alone
and he's looking at the stars
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He listens to them playing guitars
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Him and Filt go back a long, way
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They talked about marching and dying
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All in one day they play songs together
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They sit up past the door
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Well I wonder why his dream goes on
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You know Bob was there
last week as well
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Well he's a quiet guy
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but he's got stories to tell
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Our hero sits and listens
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without asking why
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And teaches Bob a minor
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with a glint in his eye
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Well Bob used it on Hollis Brown but that
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Was some time ago
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When is this dream gonna stop?
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Heaven knows
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Then our hero picks up his guitar
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To play the only tune he knows
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He played it to me once, he said
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Was it short?
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But this is how it goes
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And then he sings, one time
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He sings, this is the only thing
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that really matters
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Keeps me golden, retains my sanity
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The nights I spend alone
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when there's just billows
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Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman,
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David Blue
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And me, and me Stevie died
and then David died
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But only to the papers that live outside
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Last Thursday they were in
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the room where he sits
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The three of them making jokes
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about the meager old bits
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And Steve and David smile
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and they left quite soon
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He wonders about that dream
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as he looks at the stars
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and the moon
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Sometimes he has a party
for him and the crew
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They turn up on time
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just cause they always do
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And Phil plays Ein March
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and it's his fa vourite song
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And Bob plays harmonica
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but he plays it all wrong
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And Steve harmonises like he
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did with John Prine
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And David just sits and look
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s blue all the time
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Well, then the time comes round again,
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they all sit and listen to our hero play
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He says, well,
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you've heard it all before,
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but they like it, so they shout encore
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And then he sings,
he's a dreamer, he's lost time
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This is the only thing that
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really matters,
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keeps me go ing, retains my sanity
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The nights I spend alone
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when there's just
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Bill Oaks, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman,
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David Blue, and me, and me.
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Bill Oaks, Bob Dylan,
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Steve Goodman, David Blue, and me.
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