My Old Man

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My old man had a rounder soul
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He'd hear an ol' freight train and
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 he'd have to go

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Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy 
bone
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And that's the reason I guess that 
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he'd been cursed to roam

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Came to town back before the war
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Didn't even know what it was he was 
lookin' for

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He carried a tattered bag for his 
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violin
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Full of lots of songs of the places 
he had been

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He talked real easy, he had a 
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smiling way
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He could pass along to you when his 
fiddle played

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Makin' people drop their cares and 
woes
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And hum out loud the tunes that his 
fiddle bowed

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Til the people there began to join 
that sound
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And ev'ryone in town was laughin,' 
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singin,' dancin' 'round

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Like the Fiddler's tunes we all 
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there heard that night
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Like some dream that says all the 
world is right


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The Fiddler's eye caught a beauty 
there
She had that rollin' flowin' golden 
kind of hair
He played for her as if she danced 
alone
He played his favorite songs, the 
ones he called his own
She alone was dancin' in the room
The only thing left movin' to that 
Fiddler's tune

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He played until she was the last to 
go
The he stopped and packed his case, 
said he'd take her home
In all the nights that passed a 
child was born
In all the years that passed, love 
would keep them warm
And all their lives they'd share 
that dream come true
And all because she danced so well 
his fiddler tune

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The train next mornin' blew a 
lonesome sound
As if she sang the blues of what she
 took from town
And all that I recall that was said 
when I was young
There's no one else could really 
sing those songs he sung

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