You take a stab at me I take a poke at you Well, I'm sick and I'm tired Of fighting with you So I'll pack my bags And head for the door I won't live this
An angry mob Had a man in chains They were sure He was to blame A vicious rumor Had made the rounds Was soon well known All over town Don't you beg for
Got the blues in the mornin' Got the blues everyday Had the blues this mornin' Had the blues all this long day You're gonna have them blues too If you
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Well, I can't go home So 'round the world I roam Got no place to call my own No, I can't go home Well, I was born on the run From town to town From sun
Pass the hat, friend If you'd be so kind, friend Take a while For a smile and a song Leave your worries Leave your hurry In a while you're gonna find
You'll still be mine All of the time If you go away You're mine anyway No matter what, you'll find You'll still be mine From the moment we met We both
Let us pause in life's pleasure And count its many tears While we all sob sorrow With the poor There's a song that will linger Forever in our ears Oh,
Keep no secrets Tell no lies Out of the shadows Darker than night All of your secrets Coming to light All those fears that grew Deep inside of you So
There was a big snafu On the edge of town It seems a man had shot His woman down He stood over her body With his smoking gun He didn't try to hide He
The decline and the fall Of modern times Let it go on Without me tonight Rivers will rage Skies open wide Let 'em rage on Without me tonight Because
Let the teardrops fall You said you wasn't gonna call You didn't love me at all So let the teardrops fall Since you've been gone I've been so blue And
You know you don't want him So why don't you leave him You know you don't love him So why do you see him I'll never understand No I'll never understand
Like a murder in a one horse town I can tell you word gets around I hear you've been lookin' for me Searchin five years runnin' for me Got to prove you
So many people, fall into line They look right through me, steal all my time Scream when I'm working, ask what it means No one can touch me, alone in
Late last night, I went for a walk Down by the river,near my home Couldn't believe, with my own eyes I swear I'll never leave, my home again I saw a
Chorus: And the German skies Are clear tonight The scars of war Aren't here tonight My German girl I shere tonight Midnight comes The shadows all run
You see that grey-haired man By the window He ain't half as old As he looks Barely aware that his wife Has left him He won't see his Children grow up