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Working On The Line
02:13
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Working On The Line
Well my love it never dies
I've been roaming the same old ground
I've been working on the line
many a year now
(Chorus)
I'm working on the line
working on the line
I'll be working hard 'til the day I die
I wake up at 5 and go to bed about 9
I'm working on the line and my mind ain't mine
Someone left me long ago
someone left me on my own
but now I can do what I choose to do
I'm not clicking my heels in some
other souls boots
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
I've lost all but my loneliness
no one would take a man in debt
and pull him through ooooh
It's hurting myself twice as hard
losing all the hearts I dream to win
Faces I've seen and hearts I've believed
Tired of living all wired and beat
telling me off their restless rage
captured in memory and remembered in vain
(Chorus)
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Pretty Pair Of Glasses
02:15
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Pretty Pair Of Glasses
We were wild at heart
escape the breeze
run like the wind
In the land of the dark
we were set apart and forced to give in
Even though I haven't seen you for many days
the painted picture in my mind will never chip away.
(chorus)
You've got long hair, nice eyes, a great smile and that pretty pair of glasses x2
Those heartbreaking people who faint at the sight of blood
don't know much about living a life of love
I know better days are yet to come around
next time I see you on old fashioned ground
you've got (chorus)
Times get rough when you're in love
sister used to call love a dumb thing
I can't say I know it much
'cause I just call it too much of something
Well now lonely times have got me now
remembering things we used to say
but I've been in the past too long
I'm starting to forget about today
I'm not trying to forget memories that taunt
as much as the memories that come back to haunt.
(chorus)
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You're On Your Own
03:32
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You're On Your Own
I've worked so hard all my life
nobody come to see me here
nobody come to see me here
nobody see me here
and I'm staring at the future in the wall and death is near
and I wish I had some money to leave you
but it's been a bad year
Ain't got nobody to love me and I'm all alone
I'm all alone I'm all alone
and outside the leaves are flying and there ain't no snow
and I wish I had some money to leave you
but you're on your own
I'm proud of all of my children but are they proud of me
are they proud of me
are they proud of me
they hardly ever come to visit and they only want
to leave me be
and I wish I had some money to leave them
but the pain is on me
The world is cruel on a poor man who worked hard all his time
all of his time
all of his time
and when you ask for a hand that's the day that they'll
hand you a knife
and I wish I had some money to leave you
but ain't it a crime
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The World I've Never Known
There ain't no way to high and lonesome
without living in the scene so poor and low
I've seen faces that I never thought I'd see again
and felt pity from the world I've never known
There's people on the bottom scraping lower
and really they're just trying to scrape by
while the rules are designed to starve them further
and there ain't no use in trying to survive
(Bridge)
And sometimes I wonder where I'm going
and there ain't no use playing guessing games
best that I be working for a living
and better be where no one knows my name
I'm trying my best to kill the memories
with a future I can have to save my pride
and there ain't no use in listening
to anybody who I can tell ain't on my side
(Bridge)
So don't chase your dreams and call me dreamer
just because your dream is easier than mine
I'll be holding my heart out forever
it beats sitting there trying to fit in all the time
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Can't Get Into What I Can't Get Out Of Life
Things been moving down
all of the time
Can't slow down the end
'cause it's coming around the bend
Can't get into what I can't get out of this life
As the season worsens and the well drips dry
There's no light at the end of this tunnel of mine
Because it's around the bend
Can't get into what I can't get out of life
(Bridge)
Nothing inspires me like the past
I look at things that don't really last
I used to smile but now there's tears
ain't no good in living because I'm tired of the years
People will use me oh yes it's true
can't imagine anything else they can do
I miss the old world
but no one cares
no one gives a damn about my low down affairs
and it's coming around the bend
can't get into what I can't get out of life
(Bridge 2)
I don't know what happened but there's nobody around anymore
I don't know what happened but there's nobody around anymore
trying to keep up with the store and there's nobody around no more
I look at what they got
what they now need to get by
sitting high on a buck
watching the world go by
seeing there ain't no hope
unless I'm in luck
Because it's coming around the bend
Can't get into what I can't get out of life
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Fifty Minute Woman
03:20
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Fifty Minute Woman
Well some things last forever
like wintertime and the cold
Cloudy days and wind chimes
and aching broken bones
She was a fifty minute woman
and in a short hour
she was gone
Well she took me to the preacher
brought me to the top of the church
took me to the preacher
brought me to the top of the church
I been sliding down this hilltop
since my holy boots don't work
Well I talk to the policeman
he done called me a crook
I talk to the policeman
they said I was a crook
I said I ain't got a heart
that's what a fifty minute woman took
I talked to the school teacher
he done called me a fool
I talked to the school teacher
he done called me a fool
He said no fifty minute woman
be caught walking from school
Well some things last forever
like wintertime and the cold
Cloudy days and wind chimes
and aching broken bones
She was a fifty minute woman
and in a short hour
she was gone
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Keep My Blues Some Company
Been taking for granted baby
all of the crime
Had a hard day working
you let me down all the time
You say you love me but it just don't never show
You know me too well don't listen to me no more
You work so hard to tell me
you work so hard to stick around
but I've been loved before
I don't need you anyhow
Won't you keep my blues baby?
Won't you keep my blues some company?
Be a friend to the frown under my smile
turn back this clock for me
Won't you keep my blues baby?
Won't you keep my blues some company?
Be a friend to the frown under my smile
turn back this clock for me
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Hey Hey That's What The People All Say
I got sweat pants and an old dress shirt
gonna get me a job and get to go to work
hey hey that's what the people all say hey hey
I been buying papers with my dwindling dollars
picking up a payphone giving them hollers
hey hey that's what the people all say hey hey
(Chorus)
I don't have a voice without my coin
I can't swing without my coin
can't be nobody without my coin
pray tell me how a man can make some coin
hey hey
that's what all the people say
Well they tell me I need a university degree
in order to get on my hands and knees
hey hey that's what the people all say hey hey
I tell them it's an emergency
I have to pay to be in a country that's free
hey hey that's what the people all say hey hey
(Chorus)
There's no use dodging the issue here
there's a job if you look but there's no career
hey hey that's what the people all say hey hey
You want steady money there's a place you can go
if you're honest you can set your sights pretty low
hey hey that's what the people all say hey hey
(Chorus)
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Just South Of Beyond
02:32
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Just South Of Beyond
Here's a girl I once fell for
here she lies on a street corner
over there's the house she used to hide in
That's where I tried to help her out
that's where she washes up
when she wants a coffee cup
when she wants a store to let her in
Here's where we used to lay
here's where I made my mistakes
here's where I told her I loved her
This is the floor I used to sweep her off on
these are the words that I used wrong
just south of beyond
Now I pass in amusement
she doesn't know my name
I don't have any doubt
If I can live off love I'd die from hate
Where will I be when the tables turn?
When will the karma begin?
Where will the unwritten rules find me
when revenge is in the wind?
Here's where we used to lay
here's where I made my mistakes
here's where I told her I loved her
This is the floor I used to sweep her off on
these are the words that I used wrong
just south of beyond
Here's a girl I once fell for
here she lies on a street corner
over there's the house she used to hide in
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Hark Back Blues
02:41
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Hark Back Blues
(Chorus)
Say goodbye say goodbye to the old yeller
say goodbye to the old porch rocking chair
say hello to a new kind of trouble
those hark back blues are in the air
He's got plenty plenty on the ball
he's got no friends because he's free
he'll tell anybody anything he wants to
those hark back blues will never come down on me
(Chorus)
He don't want no nasty woman
He don't want no apple tree
he don't want to old time preacher
Calling him the devil's dream
(Chorus)
He ain't got no imagination
Since the city stripped him away
Since the world knocked him so hard
He's got a right not to stay
(Chorus)
He's taking his show to Nashville
He don't want to live no lies
Find someone whose friends he belongs with
No more jealousy in everyone's eyes.
(Chorus)
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Poor Boy Blues
03:01
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Poor Boy Blues
(Broke Down Down Town)
Dying from the inside out
Poverty decorates the streets
when there ain't no rich around
(Chorus)
Poor boy blues
poor boy chooses
Poor boy lose the poor boy blues
Poor boy blues
poor boy chooses
Poor boy lose the poor boy blues
Rich man's heaven
is a poor man's hell
spread the butter 'round big boys
because butter melts in hell
and there ain't nothing left to sell
(Chorus)
Time goes on and on
you ain't done nothing wrong
College cars and parties
and you laugh at this here song
you're eating up the world
with you cancer money dreams
but you just can't take the farmer
or the gypsy out of me
(Chorus x2)
(Broke Down Down Town)
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The Town I'm Living In
02:40
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The Town I'm Living In
I'm wanting what I'll never get
I'll fill these days with my regrets and I'm holding you
The bottom of my bottle drunk
seems my sinking ship has sunk and I'm holding you
(Chorus)
I just don't want to bring you down
I don't feel right
might be the town I'm living in
I can't be bothered hanging around
with anyone I found around the town I'm living in
I am not your gigilo
I'm am not the only place you go
I am only here for the ride
I hope the rope is long and wide that's holding you
(Chorus)
I'm wanting what I'll never get
I'll fill these days with my regrets and I'm holding you
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