ฟังเพลงTown Drunk

Love And Theft - Town Drunk

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She used to come over to my house,

She only lived a few miles away

I never knew why but my mama said

If she wanted to she could stay

A pretty little girl who fought like a boy,

But she wanted to hold my hand

And the little blue dress that she always wore,

Yeah it might have been her only friend

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I remember that summer like yesterday

She used to hang around all the time

Down by the creek we would always play

And tell secrets by the porch light

Shy as a bird and timid as a flower,

I wonder where she grew up

I never really thought that much about it,

But everybody said her daddy was the town drunk

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Broken like a bottle,

Running from the only home she ever had,

Tangled in the talk behind her back

Yeah he thought she was nothing,

Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks

How could anyone not love a girl like that

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One afternoon in the middle of town

I saw her daddy sleeping on a bench

So I walked up and introduced myself

And said his daughter was my best friend

He looked at me like he didn't care

And asked me for a couple of bucks

Right then I decided that I'd look after

That pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk

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Broken like a bottle,

Running from the only home she ever had,

Tangled in the talk behind her back

Yeah he thought she was nothing,

Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks

How could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like that

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Broken like a bottle,

Running from the only home she ever had,

Tangled in the talk behind her back

Yeah he thought she was nothing,

Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks

How could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like that

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Several years later I read in the paper

That her daddy had passed away

I was holding her hand, she had the baby in the other

And there was really nothing I could say

She looked at me and I gave her a kiss

All that mattered was the three of us

Nobody thought it would all work out

For that pretty little girl

Whose daddy was the town drunk