Guy Clark – The Gypsy Boy (Guitar)

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The Gypsy boy sat thinking on the happenings of late

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Smiled on his future, worried on his fate

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And the sky it opened up and the rain came down as hail

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"It's colder than I thought" he said, somehow it never fails

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So he pulled himself together, and to shelter he did go

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There stood a Gypsy girl, in out of the snow

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Well he looked back to the hail stones fallin' to the ground

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Back to the Gypsy girl standin' there snow bound

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Well she did not say a word to him, but she looked him in the eye

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Wondered to herself as he sat down there nearby

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"How can it be this Gypsy boy ain't covered up with snow?"

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Did not let it bother her for she did not care to know

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Well he offered her his hat and she silently smiled no

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To take more than a hat she thought to warm me from this snow

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But she offered him a slicker from where she made her bed

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But he turned it down without a sound and put his hat back to his head

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Now all night long and to the day their weathers they did storm

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The Gypsy boy and Gypsy girl huddled to keep warm

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Not a word between the past, not a small hello

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Each intent on keeping from the hail or the snow

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As the sky was clearin' they stood and looked around

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He walked east, she to the west, neither made a sound

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Down the road each stopped again lookin' back to from where they came

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And the Gypsy boy he cried a low, and the Gypsy girl the same