The Idiot chords by
Stan Rogers

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Verse 1
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I often take these night shift walks
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When the foreman's not around
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I turn my back on the cooling stacks
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And make for open ground
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Far out beyond the tank-farm fence
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fence
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Where the gas flare makes no sound
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I forget the stink and I always think
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Back to that Eastern town

Interlude 1

Verse 2
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[Chorus] So I
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bid farewell to the Eastern town
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I never more will see
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But work I must so I eat this dust
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And breathe refinery
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Oh I miss the green and the
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woods and streams
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And I don't like cowboy clothes
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But I like being free and that makes me
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An idiot, I suppose.
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I remember back six years ago This western life

Verse 3
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I chose
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And every
day the news would say
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Some factory's going to
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close
Well, I could have stayed to
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take the dole
But I'm not one of those.
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I take nothing free,
and that makes me,
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An idiot, I suppose.
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Verse 4
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So come all you fine young fellows
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Who've been beaten to the ground
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This western life's no paradise,
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But it's better than lying down.
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Oh the streets aren't clean,
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and there's nothing green,
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And the hills are dirty brown,
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But the government dole will rot your soul
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Back there in your home town.
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So bid farewell to the

Verse 5
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Eastern town
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You never more will see.
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There's self-respect and
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and a steady check
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In this refinery.
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You will miss the green
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and the woods and streams
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And the dust will fill your nose.
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But you'll be free, and just like me,
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An idiot, I suppose.

Outro 1
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