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The Ballad of Old Tom Jones
Barney Bentall

1 (same as first part of):


Old Tom Jones, woke up on a winters morn


The sun was barely poking through through the trees


The mercury read minus 50 degrees


He thought for sure the damn thing had finally broken


Pre- 1:


Until he walked outside


He said Kenny, I'm getting old


I'm tired, stove up and I'm cold,


It's a long time since I've gotten any


I been crawling over dollar bills and chasing pennies


And lately I've been thinking 'bout home


This old ranch been here, for many, many a year

May for to feed the men, head north for gold

It'll still go strong, long after I've moved on

So to some to rich fool searching through his soul


Pre- 2:


Dreaming of being a cowboy



Kenny, so goddamn tired


Feel like I'm held together with baling twine and wire


There's a dance in Jesman Friday night


There's a widow I'm hoping just might,


Offer me a little company


She's a hard one, so I don't think it'll come free


I never got to see my mom, before she died

And I'd like to see just where they laid her bones

Back to the rolling hills of Bristol

Where ain't no one packs a pistol

And a cowboy only rides in books


Pre- 3 (Same as pre- 2):


And boy, I'll tell some tales

And Kenny, I wonder which one's home

When you ain't sure anymore, you start to feel alone

Just this restlessness, come creeping in

Following me anywhere that lately I've been

Like a heavy rain banging on the tin

The salmon down on the Fraser, swimming with the battered fins


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