Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
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I was born on
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the sidewalk in a city I don’t know
Verse 2
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In six ty-five I I took arms
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and got on a boat
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They told me to shoot wherever I saw smoke
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I could not stop laughing lord it seemed
like a joke.
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Verse 5
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In seventy-five,
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at at twenty five I had me a son
Verse 6
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And he died when he was young
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because of my gun
Verse 7
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Left out in the open in a case I had to run
Verse 8
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I could not believe it neither did anyone
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Verse 9
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They found me in Shreveport
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just me and a knife
Verse 10
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They cleaned off my blood
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and they sen t me to life
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For thirty years I lay awake
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in the night
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Thinking 'bout the jungle and blood and the fight
Interlude 1
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Verse 13
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In two thousand five I was
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let out on the streets
Verse 14
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A young fifty-five and and now
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I do my best workin’ with a cup and a sign
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Askin’ folks please spare me some change or
Interlude 2
some time
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Verse 17
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Yesterday a young man stood at my feet
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He asked what I wanted I said
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something to eat
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Verse 21
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That's the be st damn joke I’d heard
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in
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a long time
Verse 22
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time
Outro 1
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