Don McLean – Homeless Brother (Guitar)

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I was walking by the graveyard

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late last Friday night

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I heard somebody yelling

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it sounded like a fight

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It was just a drunken hobo dancing circles in the night

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Pouring whiskey on the head stones

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in the blue moon light

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So often have I wondered where those homeless brothers go

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Down in some hidden valley where their sorrows cannot show

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Where the police cannot find them

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where the wanted man can go

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There's freedom when you're walking

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even though you are walking slow

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Smash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can

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That homeless brother is my friend

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It's hard to be a pack rat

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It's hard to be a 'bo

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But living's so much harder where the heartless people go

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Somewhere the dogs are barking

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and the children seem to know

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That Jesus on the highway was a lost hobo

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And they hear the holy silence of the temples in the hill

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And they see the ragged tatters

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as another kind of frill

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And they envy him the sunshine and they pity him the chill

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and they are sad to do their living

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for some other kind of thrill

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Smash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can

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That homeless brother is my friend

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Somewhere there was a woman

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somewhere there was a child

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Somewhere there was a cottage

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Where the marigolds grew wild

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But somewhere's just like nowhere when you leave it for a while

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You'll find the broken hearted when you're trav'ling jungle style

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Down the bowels of a broken land where numbers live like men

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Where those who keep their senses have them taken back again

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Where the night stick cracks with crazy rage where madmen don't pretend

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Where wealth has no beginning and poverty no end

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Smash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can

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That homeless brother is my friend

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The ghosts of highway royalty have vanished in the night

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The Whitman wanderer walking t'ward a glowing inner light

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The children have grown older and the cops have gripped us tight

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There's no spot round the melting pot

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for free men in their fight

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And you who live on promises and prosper as you please

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The victim of your riches often dies of your disease

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He can't hear the fact'ry whistle just the lonesome freight train's wheeze

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He's living on good fortune

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he ain't dying on his knees

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Smash your bottle on the grave stone and live while you can

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That homeless brother is my friend

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That homeless brother is my friend