[00:03.27]Jacques Lamure is a
[00:05.20]volunteer fireman
[00:07.37]
[00:10.37]He longs to give his life
[00:13.42]Saving a nice old man and his wife
[00:17.04]When their house is
[00:18.25]filled with flames
[00:20.76]Earning him honor and fame
[00:25.14]Jacques Lamure is a foreman
[00:27.95]at a clock factory
[00:29.82]
[00:32.07]He wishes he were boss
[00:35.31]So he could fire that scoundrel William Moss
[00:38.01]
[00:39.01]Who always puts him down
[00:42.69]When Megan Blanchard is around
[00:44.19]
[00:47.06]He told himself last year
[00:48.43]that when springtime was here
[00:49.94]He would suddenly appear at Meg's door
[00:53.61]He'd rent a mariachi band and respectfully demand
[00:57.17]His dear Meg to take his hand
[00:59.16]And to be his forever more
[01:01.32]
[01:02.76]But of course he didn't dare
[01:05.07]and pretended not to care
[01:06.03]
[01:08.22]About the insult or the loss
[01:10.73]
[01:11.92]When he found out she'd married William Moss
[01:14.66]
[01:25.41]Jacques Lamure goes to see a show
[01:28.48]every other Friday night
[01:29.01]
[01:32.57]He likes the westerns best
[01:35.44]He'd rather be a sheriff with a gold star on his chest
[01:38.56]
[01:39.24]Than that weird guy who never says a word
[01:42.86]And when spoken to pretends he hadn't heard
[01:45.36]
[01:46.42]He realized one day that he didn't have to stay
[01:50.16]That he could move as far away as planes could fly
[01:53.54]
[01:54.29]He chuckled as he mused
[01:55.73]About the people who had rused him
[01:57.85]And how shocked and confused that they would be
[02:00.28]When he says goodbye and never turns around
[02:04.73]Never returns to that miserable town
[02:07.49]Then as weeks passed he soon did find
[02:10.00]
[02:12.25]This move had greatly improved his state of mind