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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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. . it was a bar downtown;
Was Richmond,
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Virginia. . . we were bumming around,
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Suitcase to suitcase. . . we started him talking,
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Finding out about the things we've shared
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in the miles we've been.
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Verse 2
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He had a gray pillowcase
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And he had this old concertina,
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all beat up and she played like hell,
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those Gospel songs,
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Well, he drank all night for nothing,
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he told his stories till dawn.
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Verse 3
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boy! Sun's up now and it's time to roll!
better time than early in the morning
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To be out walking down
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that road!
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some fools just rushing on by,
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We'll be like some Mr. Independence: we're
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taking our own sweet time!"
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
that highway under
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a clear blue sky,
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drinking warm red wine.
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'Bout the night he rolled
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seven; bout some girl he'd done wrong;
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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Yeah, ol' Stoney had a
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magic; made him hard to forget.
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Like the night we flew down the highway (his old pickup,
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it nearly wrecked!)
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all drunked up and carrying on;
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Till Stoney finally calmed her singing
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those Gospel songs.
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Verse 6
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and he just shook my hand.
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friend," but you know he never has.
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just walking down the road,
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Never really caring where that high
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Verse 7
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Yeah, Stoney was a li ar
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It was just the way he told things,
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and you never want to doubt him.
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'Cause he kept you going
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when the road got rough,
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And brought you through the lean times
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by making it up.
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"Hey, did I ever tell you the time I married my cousin up in Las
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Vegas?"
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Yeah, Stoney. Tell it again,
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will you?
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