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Verse 1
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By: jimmy buffett
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1971
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Hardly seems a long time
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Just a minute of the day
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But the man who stood beside me
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More than gave himself away
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The food stain on his spotted shirt
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A gray beard on his face
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A man composed of many names
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So I just called him ace
Verse 2
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Chorus: But
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ace can't read and ace can't write
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And he sleeps on a bench at night
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A little man the world has left behind
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He ain't bitter, he ain't sweet
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Makes his living on the street
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Never knowing what he's
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gonna find
Verse 3
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Born in mississippi
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Picking cotton as a child
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Left soon for the city
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Where he heard that life was wild
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That was fifty years ago
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When nothing's really strange
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>from a poor dirt farm to dirty streets
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Is really not much change
Verse 4
Chorus:
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And ace can't read and ace
can't write
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And he sleeps on a bench at night
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A little man the world has left behind
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He ain't bitter, he ain't sweet
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Makes his living on the street
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Never knowing what he's
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gonna find
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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Go back to the country
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No he really can't do that
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Wasted years have left him
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Nothing but an old straw hat
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So he puts it on his head
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And waves a last good-bye
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No No time left to turn around
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And no time to ask why
Verse 6
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Chorus:
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Ace can't read and ace can't write
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And he sleeps on a bench at night
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A little man the world has left behind
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He ain't bitter, he ain't sweet
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Makes his living on the street
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Never knowing what he's gonna find
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And this old world has left poor
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ace behind
Outro 1
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