Guy Clark – Let Him Roll (Guitar)

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He's a wino, tried and true

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Done about everything there is to do

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He worked on freighters, he worked in bars

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He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars

C
It was white port, that put that look in his eye

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That grown men get when they need to cry

G
And he sat down on the curb to rest

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And his head just fell down on his chest

C
He said "Every single day it gets

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A little bit harder to handle and yet..."

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And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered

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And the words just rolled off down in the gutter

C
Well he was elevator man  in a cheap hotel

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In exchange for the rent on a one room cell

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He's old in years beyond his time

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Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine

C
And he said "Son", he always called me son

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He said, "Life for you has just begun"

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And he told me a story that I heard before

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How he fell in love with a Dallas whore

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Well he could cut through the years to the very night

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When it ended, in a whore house fight

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And she turned his last proposal down

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In favor of being a girl about town

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It's been seventeen years right in line

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And he ain't been straight none of the time

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Been too many days of fightin' the weather

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And too many nights of not being together

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So he died........ (guitar for one verse)

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Let him roll, Lord let him roll

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Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul

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Let him roll, Lord let him roll

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He always said that heaven

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Was just a Dallas Whore....

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Well when they went through his personal affects

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In among the stubs from the welfare checks

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Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door

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An address in Dallas, and nothin' more

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The welfare people provided the priest

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A couple from the mission down the street

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Sang Amazing Grace, and no one cried

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'Cept some woman in black way off to the side

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We all left and she was standing there

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Black veil covering her silver hair

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And One-Eyed John said her name was Alice

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And she used to be a whore in Dallas

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Let him roll, Lord let him roll

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Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul

        C     F
Let him roll, Lord let him roll

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He always said that heaven

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Was just a Dallas Whore....