phil brown chords by David Mallett
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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sticks, and stones
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His days were filled with canvas scenes
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Of browns and blues and
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meadow greens
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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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And he'd come to town with his
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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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he'd shake familiar
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hands
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He'd sit around the
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SO station till his loneliness
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would end
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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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A faded yellow light
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Would burn inside the room
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where he would stand
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and play the old
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Victrola
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and drink his rusty wine
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and conduct the
Mozart music
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with his hard and shaken hand
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But he could paint a picture
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and he could capture light
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and no one ever felt things
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more than he
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He was never much for roses,
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he'd sooner paint the thorns
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Cause he found a keener beauty
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there that no one else could see
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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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and the dust from off the floor
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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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And long through the night,
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a faded yellow light
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Would burn in side the room
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where you would stand
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And play the old
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Victrola
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And drink his rusty wine
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And conduct the
Mozart music
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With his hard and shaken hand
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you
phil brown
David Mallett
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