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Well with buck shot eyes and a purple heart
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I rolled down the national stroll
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and with a big fat paycheck
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strapped to my hip sack
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and a shore leave wristwatch underneath
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my sleeve
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in a Hong Kong drizzle on Cuban heels
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I rowed down the gutter to the Blood Bank
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and I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga
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and was in a bad need of a shave
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and so I slopped at the corner on cold chow mein
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and shot billards with a midget
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until the rain stopped
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and I bought a long sleeved shirt
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with horses on the front
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and some gum and a lighter and a knife
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and a new deck of cards (with girls on the back)
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and I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife
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and I said Baby, I'm so far away from home
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and I miss my Baby so
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I can't make it by myself
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I love you so
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Well I was pacing myself
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trying to make it all last
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squeezing all the life
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out of a lousy two day pass
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and I had a cold one at the Dragon
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with some Filipino floor show
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and talked baseball with a lieutenant
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over a Singapore sling
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and I wondered how the same moon outside
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over this Chinatown fair
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could look down on Illinois
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and find you there
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and you know I love you Baby
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and I'm so far away from home
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and I miss my Baby so
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I can't make it by myself
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I love you so
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Shore Leave...
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Shore Leave...
Tom Waits - Martha Lyrics
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