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Sporting Life Blues
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Eric Clapton
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I'm tired of hangin' around,
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Think I will marry and settle down
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This ole sportin' life,
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It is a mean life, and it's killin' me
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I got a letter from my home,
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All of my schoolmates, they're dead an'gone
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It'll make you worry,
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It'll make you wonder 'bout days to come
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My mother used to talk to me,
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I was young and foolish, Brownie could not see
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Now, I have no mother, my sisters
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And my brothers, they don't care for me
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Mama used to fall on her knees an' pray,
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These are the words, mother,she used to say
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She would say: "Brownie, wha-oh,
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My son, please change your way"
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Now, I'm goin' to change my way,
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I'm growin' older each and every day
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When I was young and foolish,
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I was so easy, easy to let ...
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I was a gambler and a cheater, too, now,
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It's come my turn to lose
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This ole sportin' life,
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Got the best hand, what can I do?
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There ain't but one thing Brownie done wrong,
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I liv'd that ole sportin' life too long
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Friends, it's no good, please believe me,
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Please leave it alone
Sporting Life Blues
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