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Cold River
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John Hiatt
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Well he packed up his suitcase
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'Cause the deal gone down
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She was slipping on her stockings
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Lord it made the sweetest sound
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There was a baby in the reeds
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Along the river outside of town
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As he wound his pocket watch
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To set time spinnin' 'em all around
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Wasn't long they'd be forgetting
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This old rainy Texas day
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Little fella wasn't meant
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For this old world anyway
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Gambling and whoring
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Hiding from plain view
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Tell me which one of us rounders
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Would you trust this poor child to
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You just roll on cold river
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Wash little Moses down
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We've got business to attend to
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In Chicago town
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In Chicago town
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Well they rolled out of Austin
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On some kind of cattle train
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She'd been with him for a year
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Didn't know his second name
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He worked the small towns hustling nine ball
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She hooked the truck stops too
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They were trying to make Chicago
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Before the winter come blowing through
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Some trucker sprang a leak
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In California they supposed
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Started working Arizona
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Lord she missed the bloody rose
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They rambled through the southwest
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Making money and making time
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But they never could find no help
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Not a doctor, not that kind
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You just roll on cold river
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Wash little Moses down
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We've got business to attend to
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In Chicago town
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In Chicago town
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Some women love their babies
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Some women won't have one
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Some Texas woman found him
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And we're still on the run
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The kind of life we're living
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He'd only slow us down
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Ain't good for nothing anyway
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Just rambling town to town
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You just roll on cold river
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Wash little Moses down
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We've got business to attend to
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In Chicago town
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In Chicago town
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Well he unpacked his suitcase
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She pulled her stockings down
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Dreaming up a pool hall
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And shooting up a round
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She thought about tomorrow
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When the money rolled around
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That night they slept like babies
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In Chicago town
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