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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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Tho' I'm not quite in a shell
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Drink and listen to that song
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A whiter shade of pale
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A whiter shade of pale
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I was good shad tree mechanic
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So I send myself to school
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They smoothed off my rough edges
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In my hands 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 tend and make any diesel sing
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Just like Patsy Cline
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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 had been a bar room singer
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She was as good as anyone
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But I ask 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, ohh
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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 silver visor
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The knuckles stayed bone dry
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But after supper I kept hearin' 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 to low, ohhh
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A little bit to 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 Abbott steer
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You better
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Let my sweet dream run, ohhh
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Let my sweet dream run
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Ohhhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh
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I was good shad tree mechanic
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So I send myself to school
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They smoothed off my rough edges
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In my hands 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 the diesels aren't the only thing that sing
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Just like Patsy Cline
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Just 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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Tho' I'm not quite in a shell
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Drink and listen to that song
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A whiter shade of pale
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A whiter shade of pale
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A whiter shade of pale
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A whiter shade of pale
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