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A Small Sacrifice
04:03
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Nights on the farm
You try to stay warm
hold tight to his arms
and pray for a son
It's good to be king
Not so much to be queen
who can't give him a child
to carry on his name
Two years since the day
He brought you to stay
White dress in your trunk
Silence on the train
He's a man of few words
but he treats you good
keeps you well-fed
and a roof overhead
So you go to the priest
and fall on your knees
begging him please
why won't God help me?
He smiles a sad smile
Says stand up my child,
faith can take you far
but not the last couple miles
He don't always play nice
But even God has a price
he can bring you your son
for a small sacrifice
and on the day that he's born
and the last breath leaves your lungs
you'll go up to meet him
with your journey all done
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2. |
Got to Go
03:57
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That boy was born under a bad sign
he gives this town the creeps
strange things keep happening
when in those tongues he speaks
He got to go...
Some say that he's touched by God
some say he's devil-bound
I don't give a damn which one,
I don't want either one around
He got to go...
His father is a good man
His mother God rest her soul
But let him peddle this revival act
further on down the road
He got to go...
It's a great, big old world
I'm sure he'll find his way
And if he lives to tell the tale
Maybe he'll be back some day
But he got to go...
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Broken Bow, OK
05:27
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Left 'em rolling in the aisles in Standing Rock
stood 'em back up in Falling Creek
They ran me out on a rail from Peaceful Pines
I thought my goose was cooked in Kettle Falls
The mayor gave me the key to Devil's Gate
in Angel's Grove I cursed them all
Some may say that I'm a holy man
Mostly I just feel full of holes
my heart needed mending until I met you
in a little town called Broken Bow
The nights are long in Day's Corner
Got a sunburn in Evening Shade
Nearly died of thirst in Whiskey Ford
Almost drowned in Dry Tavern, PA
Couldn't hear a thing in Silent Springs
Lost my voice up in Nightingale
Thought I might settle down in Ramble Hills
Busted out of the Liberty Fork jail
Some may say that I'm a holy man
Mostly I just feel full of holes
my heart needed mending until I met you
in a little town called Broken Bow
Some say that I'm a holy man
But sometimes I just don't know
But I found my salvation when I found you
in a little town called Broken Bow
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Adelene
03:04
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Adelene, they don't like you down in Abilene
Ask for water give you gasoline, oh Adelene oh why?
Adelene, making out in the mezzanine,
they'll break your heart and make a scene, oh Adelene, oh why?
Adelene, been there and done benzedrine
nothing dirtier than getting clean, oh Adelene, oh why?
Adelene, staring down the barrel of a magazine,
stopped living at seventeen, oh Adelene, oh why?
The preacher man, he don't understand
this town just can't be kind
The preacher man, he took your hand
He's a braver man than I... Adelene, oh why?
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Potter's Ground
05:58
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The preacher man left me bleeding
in the alley behind this bar.
Maybe I had it coming,
but he didn’t have to take it this far.
The preacher man left me bleeding,
and yes, I was shaking down his friend.
But my life leaking through my fingers
ain’t how this all had to end.
A bullet in the back from a holy man’s gun
ain’t how I thought the man on the cross would have done.
Lay me down in the potter’s ground.
I swear all I wanted was his money,
I wasn’t gonna hurt no one.
We all could have walked away now all I can do is pray
that the end of these days gonna come.
A man has got to make a living,
whether it’s right or wrong.
To put food on the table for his children,
he’ll even sing the devil’s song.
Lay me down in the potter’s ground.
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Shirley
03:20
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Shirley slings hash at a diner
30 miles south of nowhere.
She purrs as she greets
every man that she meets,
you know Shirley likes her meat to be rare.
Shirley’s used to getting what she wants,
in love, all-out war is fair.
I think she used to be quite the beauty,
now I think her prey is just scared.
I know you got a woman, but Shirley she surely don’t care.
I’m not saying she’s a maneater, but boy you better beware.
Well Shirley, she’s gonna get you,
Shirley is sharpening her claws.
And it’s coffee she pours, while right through the doors,
her next meal walks straight into her jaws.
Wells dry up when she’s walking by,
and the birds they stop their songs.
The dogs start to howl with the foam on their jowls,
she likes to put her nose where it doesn’t belong.
Shirley’s gone down to Houston,
you know she’s got a brother down there.
They say he’s got connections to the Outfit,
you can ask him yourself if you dare.
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Who you been loving since I've been gone?
A long tall man with a red coat on
Good-for-nothing baby, you doing me wrong
Who you been loving since I've been gone?
Who's been playing around with you?
A real cool cat with eyes of blue
Trifling baby, are you being true?
Who's been fooling around with you?
Somebody saw you at the break of day
Dining and dancing at the cabaret
He was long and tall, he had plenty of cash
He had a red Cadillac and a black mustache
He held your hand and he sang you a song
Who you been loving since I've been gone?
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Burn So Bright
03:52
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I know I told you to go
But I really wanted you to stay
Stupid to make you prove what I already knew
You love me enough to go away
Daddy was a rich man in a poor town
Mama taught me everything I know
I left them all behind so many years ago
To follow you out on the road
You were so beautiful back then
Like an angel who had lost his wings
And when you held me close there was no such thing
As original sin
Our love used to burn so bright,
Now it just burns
I never complained about my lot in life
But I got something to confess
It was never easy being your wife
Best intentions make an awful mess
On that day I picked a fight
Another hint you never heard
I yelled at you to leave, I was feeling the wine
You left without saying a word
When that man came to the door
Selling his bibles and knives
I wasn't myself, he could have been anyone else
I let him take me for a drive
Our love used to burn so bright,
Now it just burns
It was already light when I came home
With a scar I'd never show
You turned around when you heard the sound
Your eyes were smoldering like coals
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Dreamland
05:20
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Dreams are just smoke
and when there’s smoke there’s fire
and Dreamland is burning tonight
where the electric lights danced
like sparks on a wire
Dreamland is burning tonight
on the edge of a beach
on the edge of the world
Dreamland is burning tonight
where the Alligator Boy
loved a Lilliputian girl
Dreamland is burning tonight
it’s hard to sleep with a fever
your dreams get all twisted and bright
and waking up just never feels right
and Dreamland is burning tonight
Sober Sir Ed
never did smile
and Dreamland is burning tonight
But he loved his wife so
he wed her ashes when she died
Dreamland is burning tonight
There goes One-Armed Captain Jack
attacked by his cats
Dreamland is burning tonight
You can’t close some gates
once they’re open wide
Dreamland is burning tonight
You could shoot-the-chutes from great heights
and the boxes of babies, such a sight
and the city of white shone so bright
but Dreamland is burning tonight
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In the End
04:36
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In the end
You’re gonna leave me
Lie to and deceive me
In the end
In the end
Someday I’ll stop wanting
Your ghost will stop haunting me
In the end
In the end
You’ll leave my heart broken
Burnt, smoldering, and smoking
In the end
But maybe just for now
I can believe
That you belong to me
And you won’t let me down
In the end
Someday I’ll stop wanting
Your ghost will stop haunting me
In the end
In the end
I’ll do it all over
And I’ll love another
In the end
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