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Waylon Jennings
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I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told
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I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles such are promises
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All lies and jests still a man hears what he wants to hear 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 in the company of strangers
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In the quiet of the railway station running scared
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Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go
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Looking for the places only they would know
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[ steel ]
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Asking only workman's wages
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I come looking for a job 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 some times when I was so lonesome
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And I took some comfort there
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[ guitar - steel ]
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In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade
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And he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down
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And cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
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I am leaving I am leaving but the fighter still remains
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