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Jerry Douglas
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I am just a poor boy
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Though my story's seldom told
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I have squandered my resistance
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For a pocketful of mumbles
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Such are promises
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All lies in jest
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear
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And disregards the rest
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When I left my home and my family
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I was no more than a boy
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In the company of strangers
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In the quiet of the railway station
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Runnin' scared
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Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
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Where the ragged people go
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Lookin' for the places only they would know
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Well lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-la-lie
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Asking only workman's wages
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I come lookin' for a job
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But I get no offers
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Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
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I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
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I took some comfort there
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And I'm laying out my winter clothes
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And wishing I was gone
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Goin' home
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Where the New York City winters aren't bleedin' me
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Leadin' me, goin' home
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Well lie-la-la-la-la-lie
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Lie-lie-la-la
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La-la-la-lie
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La-la-la-la
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In the clearing stands a boxer
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And a fighter by his trade
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And he carries the reminders
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Of every glove that laid him down
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And cut him 'til he cried out
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In his anger and his shame
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"I am leaving, I am leaving"
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But the fighter still remains
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Well lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie, la-la-lie
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Lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie, la-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie, la-la-lie
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Lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie, la-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie, la-la-lie
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Lie-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-lie, la-la-lie
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Lie-la-la-la-lie
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