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Henson Cargill
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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
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Such are promises all lies and jest
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
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When I left 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 laying low
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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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Lai la lai la la lai...
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Asking only workman's wages 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 times when I was so lonesome I took some comfort there
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[ banjo ]
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Now I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone going home
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Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me leading me going home
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[ guitar ]
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Lai la lai la la lai...
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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 danger and his shame
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I am leaving I am leaving but the fighter still remains
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Lai la lai la la lai...
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