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If I had a dime for every time |
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I heard my old man say one of these days |
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I wouldn't be like my old man today talking bout places that he'd been back in his younger days that he was gonna go back to again one of these days |
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Dropped out of school when he was just sixteen fell right in to a tire plant building the very things that make the asphalt sing and put |
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Alabama far behind you |
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I remember him saying that |
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Chicago was a hell right here on earth and twenty five years later |
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I was saying the same thing about |
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Memphis It's no wonder everybodies scared of downtown |
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Birmingham it's just a little too close to home |
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But there's more crooks down here and the cops don't care, while old white men wearing ties can do anything they want. |
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Once a country boy's seen the way the steam rises off a man's insides on the sidewalk |
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Tends to change the way he thinks, the way he sees everything and he goes back to where he came from |
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One of these days when my face looks like a roadmap gonna find my way back home. |
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And i'll go walking on the west side after dark and leave my gun locked in my car. |
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One of these days you'll take one look at me and run. |
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One of these days you'll take one look at me and run. |
