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Introduction:
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Last night when I felt so lonely and so blue
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I was playing that old time blues
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The blues of old Calahan.
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Well, he was born in Kentucky, far away
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He would be soon the famest man
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Kentucky ever knew
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I took my guitar and my old country fiddle
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Played me a song of the old Calahan.
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He once was a star in the days of the union
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We all know him as the old Calahan.
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Well, he was poor with no penny to his name
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There was sorrow and there was pain
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But no-one was to blame.
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He went to town, just a guitar in his hands
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He made fortune and he got fame
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At last he made the grade.
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I took my guitar and my old country fiddle
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Played me a song of the old Calahan.
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He once was a star in the days of the union
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We all know him as the old Calahan.
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Last night when I felt so lonely and so blue
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I was playing that old time blues
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The blues of old Calahan.
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So I can tell you wherever, my best friends
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When you're lonely, when you're blue
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Just play it like I do.
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I took my guitar and my old country fiddle
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Played me a song of the old Calahan.
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He once was a star in the days of the union
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We all know him as the old Calahan.
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I took my guitar and my old country fiddle
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Played me a song of the old Calahan.
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He once was a star in the days of the union
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We all know him as the old Calahan.