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Broken Man's Lament
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Emmylou Harris
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I was once a broken man
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I was once a broken fool
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Lost my wife and children
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To one basic broken rule
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Now I live my life in silence
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Though I'm not quite in a shell
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I drink and listen to that song -
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"A Whiter Shade of Pale," Oh,
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A Whiter Shade of Pale
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I was a good shade-tree mechanic
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So I sent myself to school
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They smoothed out my rough edges
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In my hand they put new tools
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The instructor once he told me
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I could work on any line
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I could tune to make
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A diesel sing...
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Just like Patsy Cline, Oh,
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Just Like Patsy Cline.
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Well I met my wife to be
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Through my mother's best friend's son
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She'd been a barroom singer
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She was as good as anyone
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Well I asked her to stop singing
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And the girl she did not flinch
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Next day she went and bought that man
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A brand new crescent wrench, Oh,
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A brand new crescent wrench.
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We had three fine children
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As eight years went on by
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And earned a supervising line
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My knuckles stayed bone-dry
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But after supper I kept hearing her
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By the kitchen radio
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Singing sweet, but desperate harmony
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A little bit too low, Oh,
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A little bit too low.
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She left three months later
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I'd just come home for lunch
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Note said "Easy come, hard go.
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"I still love you so much."
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She said I don't know if I'll be there
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Or if you'll want me when I come
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But if and when that happens, dear,
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You'd better let my sweet dream run, Oh,
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Let my sweet dream run.
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I was a good shade-tree mechanic
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So I sent myself to school
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They smoothed out my rough edges
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In my hand they put new tools
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The instructor once he told me
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I could work on any line
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But now my diesels aint the only thing
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That sing like Patsy Cline, Oh,
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Sing like Patsy Cline.
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I was once a broken man
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I was once a broken fool
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Lost my wife and children
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To one basic broken rule
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Now I live my life in silence
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Though I'm not quite in a shell
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I drink and listen to that song - "A
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Whiter Shade of Pale," Oh,
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A Whiter Shade of Pale Oh,
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A Whiter Shade of Pale Oh,
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A Whiter Shade of Pale.
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