man from out of town chords by Bill Morrissey

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Verse 1
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The house
burned down on
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a rainy night and I never did find out why
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I just stood alone near the silver maple
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trying to keep my cigarettes dry
Waiting for the fireman I
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couldn't save a thing
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And deep inside my home, above the roar of the flame,
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I swore I  heard my telephone ring.
The rain let up, and we worked till dawn,
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just me and the firemen.
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And when they cut the power, the lions went dead,
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and I never got called again.
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The house was gone by the break of dawn,
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the air was cold and gray.
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I just set off down the road alone,
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but it's al ways gone that way
So young, so long ago,
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I thought I heard that train
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Calling out my name,
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at least it sounded like my name
Just a boy with no direction
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I left my home behind and the sky changed
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color once I crossed that town line.
My good friends did the best they could
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to hold me  down with them,
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but I took one look and I packed my bags
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and I slipped around the bend.
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The lessons came from left and right
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the first night out I found.
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Ah, the laws were not made to  protect
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the man from out of town
There was a cold street on the seacoast
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I once tried to call home
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While the church steeples
rose up above the town
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Like broken bones drinking whiskey
With a
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Catholic priest one night in the rectory
hall
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He just shook his head and said,
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You never know when
Jesus called.
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Then his eyes got wide and
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he looked around,
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But he just could not explain.
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It was like he heard the sound of
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Jesus laugh
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The way I heard that train.
Now the years and the faces blur,
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still I can't remember some.
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There are women washing windows,
there were sales
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girls chewing gum,
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there were curses in the shapes of old men kneeling in the
pews.
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There are things in this life a man
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just does not get to choose.
So finally
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I found a home in a tiny mountain town,
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just a simple place to keep me dry when
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the rain came pouring down a place to sleep the rent
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was cheap brick walls and a new slate roof
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well the landlord said you'll be safe here
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this house is fireproof
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