J.J. Cale – Downtown La (Guitar)

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Downtown L.A. is a depressing place

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You can see young men with deep lines in their face

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They could all be something if somebody cared

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But nobody knows they're even down there

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Old woman walking with a sack on her back

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Picking up the garbage people put out back

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Men down there trying to walk the line

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Trading their soul for a bottle of wine

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In the inner city it ain't no good

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It's a long, long way from Hollywood

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Bad kind of people got a hold of the street

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They got something that the poor people need

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At two in the morning they bust your head

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Fat chance walking you'll end up dead

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It's the law of the jungle with a gun and a knife

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If you stay long enough you lose your life

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Man down there he couldn't be lying

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He was sleeping in the street and he couldn't keep from crying

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Said he'd been there for twenty one years

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Through the bars and the brawls and the blues and the tears

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Prop up the front the back falls down

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All around the canyons of L.A. town

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When he asked me for a dollar I looked him in his face

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Downtown L.A. is a depressing place