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Ramblers, Gamblers, and Bums

from A Quick Walk With Me (2007) by Dan Frechette

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8. Ramblers, Gamblers, and Bums

Billy was a friend of mine
he took me to the city
he made me feel so good inside
he was always laughing with me
and I had no friends for years on end until Billy came a walking
when he first met me in a slow boxcar and then we got to talking

I said "you know boy it seems everyone just wants to get paid or laid
and it ain't about the friends you got but how much money you made"
and he set me straight said he couldn't relate
and said "boy it's the other way around-
it's all about friends Danny Boy and you got a good one now."

And we were riders into the night
we were strangers but only in the light
and until on an old guitar lady luck strummed we were ramblers, gamblers, and bums.

We rambled up and down the west coast line and
served ourselves well
he always got a couple dollars for a good song he could sell
and I was his foil and his ham boy and that's just what I did
and when we got out to tulsa town he asked me just to come on in

a house he bought in his gambling days was busted up and beat but for a time it was all we had from being picked up off the street and there was odd jobs and pockets to rob but little did we know within a year we'd be changing gears when with that wind we'd go.
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Billy I miss the rambling life being free wherever I go
I got some folks up in Pistol River who take me in off the northwest coast the weather's getting darker and there ain't too much light left to see
It's hard to outshine darkness I won't let it catch up to me

Billy I will look you up when I get out to the coast
sorry I can't stay here long but good friends let good friends go looking hard into the future to bring me new memories
until I find you again billy boy we'll be just spirits in the breeze.

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from A Quick Walk With Me (2007), released October 24, 2007

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