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Guy Clark
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He's a wino, tried and true.
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Done about everything there is to do.
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He worked on freighters, he worked in bars.
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He worked on farms, ' he worked on cars.
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It was white port, that put that look in his eye
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That grown men get when they need to cry
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And he sat down on the curb to rest
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And his head just fell down on his chest
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He said "Every single day it gets
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A little bit harder to handle and yet. . ."
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And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered
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And the words just rolled off down in the gutter
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Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel
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In exchange for the rent on a one room cell
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He's old in years beyond his time
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Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine
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So he says "Son," he always called me son
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He said, "Life for you has just begun"
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And he told me a story that I heard before
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How he fell in love with a Dallas whore
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Well he could cut through the years to the very night
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When it ended, in a whore house fight
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And she turned his last proposal down
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In favor of being a girl about town
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Now it's been seventeen years right in line
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And he ain't been straight none of the time
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Too many days of fightin' the weather
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And too many nights of not being together
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So he died. . .
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Well when they went through his personal affects
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In among the stubs from the welfare checks
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Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
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An address in Dallas, and nothin' more
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The welfare people provided the priest
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A couple from the mission down the street
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Sang Amazing Grace, and no one cried
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'Cept some woman in black, way off to the side
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We all left and she was standing there
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Black veil covering her silver hair
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And 'ol One-Eyed John said her name was Alice
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And she used to be a whore in Dallas
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Let him roar, Lord let him roll
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Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul
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Lord, let him roll, Lord let him roar
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He always said that heaven
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Was just a Dallas whore.
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