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Verse 1
Now I've had a hard life
I been through two wives
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And I've lived where the rats run wild
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But now I'm much better and
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I'm writin' this letter
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Just to tell you 'bout your baby child
Verse 2
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So Ma, I been busy and I
know you've missed me
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So I'm writin' this letter to you
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I knows it's been ten years
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but save up those sad tears
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Mama let me tell ya whets new
Verse 3
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Look at me I'm back on my feet
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Pulled myself right outa the street
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So glad to be back on my
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feet right now
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I'm gettin' smiles from the people I
Interlude 1
meet
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Verse 4
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Wontcha tell me bout Dad now
Is he still doin' bad now
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Workin in the same drugstore
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Lookin' for praise now
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Did he ever get that raise now
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He's been waitin twenty years for
Verse 5
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And poor brother Billy is he still so silly
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Livin with that girl crosstown
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I still love that poor slob
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Tell him someday I'll be round
Verse 6
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Look at me I'm back on my feet
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Pulled myself right outa the street
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So glad to be back on my feet
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right now
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I'm gettin' smiles from
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the people I meet
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So glad to be back on my feet
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Verse 7
Well I married this girl she was a rich girl
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Took her checkbook & a fountain pen
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Wrote my name so fast now
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Knew my luck couldn't last now
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I wrote myself three years in the pen
Verse 8
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So I prayed to the Saviour
Got a year off for good behavior
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Read the Bible so I'd understand
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Doin' my best to be her good
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Verse 9
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Mama so long now I know
I was wrong now
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Not to write in such a long long while
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But I'll save some money and
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you won't think it's funny
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If I put you & Dad up in style
Verse 10
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Look at me I'm back on my feet
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Pulled myself right outa the street
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So glad to be back on my
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feet right now
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I'm gettin' smiles from
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the people I meet
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Don't have to worry bout
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nothin' to eat
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Now doncha think it's
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kinda neat
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Ya know I pulled myself
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right up by the seat
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Look at me I'm back on my feet
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Outro 1
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