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Billy The Bum
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John Prine
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Billy the bum lived by the thumb
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And sang of the hobo's delight
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He'd prove he could run
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Twice as fast as the sun
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By losing his shadow at night
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Now he loved every girl
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In this curly headed world
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But no one will know it seems
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For two twisted legs and a childhood disease
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Left billy just a bum in his dreams
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Chorus:
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And he was just a gentle boy
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A real florescent light
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Cried pennies on sunday morning
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Laughs nickels on saturday night
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And your bullets they can't harm him
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Nor your knives tear him apart
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Humiliation killed him
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God bless his little heart
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Now he lived all alone
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In a run down home
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Near the side of the old railroad track
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Where the trains used to run
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Carrying freight by the ton
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And blow the whistle as billy'd wave back
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But the children around billy's home town
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Seemed to have nothin' better to do
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Then run around his house
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With their tongues from their mouth
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And make fun of that cripped old fool
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(repeat chorus)
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Now some folks they wait
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And some folks they pray
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For jesus to rise up again
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But none of these folks
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In their holy cloaks
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Ever took billy on as a friend
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For pity's a crime
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And it ain't worth a dime
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To a person who's really in need
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Just treat 'em the same
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As you would your own name
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Next time that your heart starts to bleed
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(repeat chorus)
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