Misc Originals – Adrian Carr - A Good Man (Guitar)

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My Girlfriends Life was normal enough

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But for her father Who was rarely with us

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A real estate man for a big firm by day

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He was off valuing a city twelve hundred miles away

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He’d come home each weekend for their big Sunday lunch

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As the months went on he’d make every other one.

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We'd still gather at the table And turned a blind eye

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at least he made the special occasions. Well, every other one he’d try

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They lived pretty well, he always got paid

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But he spent his time Twelve hundred miles away

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I was impressed by his plan. I thought he was a good man

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With care and grace his wife held no fear

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she loved him you see. Sweethearts for 45 years

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Then she got a letter from the Premier saying please vote for me

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She called the electoral office, to ask why didn’t he.

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He may have fed you and given you pay

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That's not the address of the man that you say

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This says he lives 12 miles away

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She's hit by a tram I thought he was a good man

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She wrote down the address put on her best Sunday blouse

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Applied her make up and sat quietly for hours

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Got into the car he had bought with his pay

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and drove to a house 12 miles that day

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she pulled up at forty two with strength you'd commend

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rechecked her lipstick, the car door she opened

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Past a his silver BM and the tricycle up the stairs

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Took a breath to confront what she must have known

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And he didn’t make it Christmas day

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He might as well have been 12 hundred miles away

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Been waiting at home so patiently

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A woman answered the door It was his secretary

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It's been 24 years since she found out that day

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It all came back to me when last week she passed away

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The church was filled to the brim with people who cared

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I looked out for him he wasn't there