Moonlight Motor Inn

INTRO:
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VERSE:
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In '46 we moved out here to Beaumont
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Start a little business of our own
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They built a freeway through in '62
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Everything we had's now is lost and
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 gone

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I see the men in the distance from 
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my window
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Faces in the cars look straight 
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ahead
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They roll on by too loud for comfort
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But too far away to rent a motel bed

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CHORUS:
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So, if you're passing on your way
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From Palm Springs to A .

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Give a wave to good ol' Dave
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Say hello to progress
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And good bye to the Moonlight 
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Motor Inn

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VERSE:
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Mother's sleeping in the back room
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TV show as are the only life she has
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Her son's now a captain in the Air 
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And he can't find the time to write
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 his proud ol' dad

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Our daughter wants to leave the 
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place at eighteen
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And run away with a jobless 
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Beaumont man
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To hitch hike out of California
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And make a life in the Rocky 
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Mountain land


CHORUS:
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So, if you're passing on your way
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From Palm Springs to A .

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Give a wave to good ol' Dave
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Say hello to progress
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And good bye to the Moonlight 
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Motor Inn

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INSTRUMENTAL:
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VERSE:
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The sun comes up behind the freeway
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And dad sits down by the dried up 
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swimming pool

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Can't make the payments on the 
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mortgage
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Cant turn the red ink into blue

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Weeds are growing through the gravel
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And the blacktops cracked and 
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partly washed away
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Our neon sign points in the wrong 
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direction
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The Moonlight Motor Inn closed down
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 today


CHORUS:
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So, if you're passing on your way
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From Palm Springs to A .

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Give a wave to good ol' Dave
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Say hello to progress
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And good bye to the Moonlight 
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Motor Inn


OUTRO:
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Give a wave to good ol' Dave
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Say hello to progress
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And good bye to the Moonlight 
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Motor Inn