Steve Earle – The Boy Who Never Cried (Guitar)

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Long ago and far away in a land no map can find

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There lived in long forgotten days a boy who never cried

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He was his mother's only child, so she never wondered why

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Until the news spread far and wide of a boy who never cried

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From fabled lands, the pilgrims came to behold the silent child

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In ancient tones, they sang his name over every lonely mile

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There were those who came in reverence, there were those who stood outside

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And whispered low in quatrains dim of a boy who never cried

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Days grew long and short until the seasons turned to years

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The child grew strong and fairer still with a face unstained by tears

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And every maid and lady fair held her breath when he passed by

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For their mothers bid them all beware of a man who never cries

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And he lived alone for all his years and then on the day he died

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He shed a single precious tear for a boy who never cried.............