Stan Rogers – The Idiot (Guitar Tab)

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[Verse 1]
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I often take these nightshift walks when the foreman's not around

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I turn my back on the cooling stack and make for open ground

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Far out beyond the tank farm fence, where the gas flare makes no sound

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I forget the stink and I always think, back to that eastern town

[Verse 2]
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I remember back six years ago this western life I chose

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And every day the news would say some factory's going to close

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Well, I could have stayed to take the dole but I'm not one of those

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I take nothing free and that make me, an idiot I suppose

[Verse 4]
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So come all you fine young fellers who've been beaten to the ground

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This western life's no paradise but it's better than lying down

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Oh, the streets aren't clean and there's nothing green and the hills are dirty brown

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But the government dole will rot your soul back there in your hometown