Tom: A
Introdução:
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He spends all his weeks in the bread line
D A
He spends all his weekends in jail
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He spends all his money on dead ends
A D E
And always has something for sale
A D A
He doesn?t know how to do different
D/A A
He lives with his head in the sand
D
Playing his role
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Stuck on the dole
A E A
The son of a landless man
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No one never called him ambitious
D A
He never pretended to be
F#m
He bummed around the pool halls to kill time
A D E
When he dropped out of school at sixteen
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It was there that he met his ex-wife
D/A A
It should have ended before it began
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She batted her eye lids and had a few kids
A E A
With the son of a landless man
A E A
With the son of a landless man
A D A
Now the wife and the kids are gone now
D A
He don?t have a clue where they are
F#m
As one night he pulled out a rifle
A D E
In an argument he took too far
A D A
Now someone says he cant see them
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It?ll be a long time before he can
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His three little girls, all giggles and curls
A E A
and the son of a landless man
A E A
Another son of a landless man