Key: G major
Verse 1
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I knew a painter in my younger days
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A man who lived with brushes,
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D
sticks, and stones
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His days were filled with canvas scenes
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And the world just passed on by his door
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He lived but lived alone
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old wool hat pulled down
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Surrounded by the dogs
that were his friends
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At times too drunk to stand,
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SO station till his loneliness
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And I knew a painter in my reckless days
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Wristle -bearded and humble on his feet
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A sympathetic sad old elf
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He knew me better than I knew myself
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In the last days of my boyhood
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In the time upon the street
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And long through the night
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Would burn inside the room
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Victrola
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and drink his rusty wine
Mozart music
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with his hard and shaken hand
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more than he
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he'd sooner paint the thorns
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Someone bought the house he lived in
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And painted up the room he died in
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And swept away the cobwebs
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The children laugh, the seasons run,
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young lovers roll in midnight fun
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But no one loves more than the one
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who paints the world o 'er
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Would burn in side the room
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Victrola
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And drink his rusty wine
Mozart music
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With his hard and shaken hand
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