Key: B
Introduction:
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Two packs of cigarettes a day The strongest whiskey Kentucky can make
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That's the recipe to put a vagabond on his hands and knees
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I watched it all up close I knew it more than most
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I saw a side of him I could never show
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for the sympathy for a world that wouldn't let him be
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That's the man he was Have you heard enough?
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What a shame What a shame to judge a life that you can't change
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The choir sings the church bells ring so won't you give this man his wings
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what a shame to have to beg you to see we're not all the same
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What a shame
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There's a hard life for every silver spoon there's a touch of grey for every shade of blue
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That's the way that I see life if there was nothing wrong then there'd be nothing right
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and for this working man they said could barely stand there's got to be a better place to land
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some kind of remedy for a world that wouldn't let him be
that's the man he was have you heard enough
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God forgive the hands that laid you down
They never knew how,
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but your broken heart can break the sound
And change the season
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Now the leaves are falling faster,
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Happily ever after
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You gave me hope through your endeavors
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And now you will live fo-re-ver
(Refrão)