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Nashville Casualty And Life Lyrics

Artist: Kinky Friedman
Album: Under The Double Ego

(Kinky Friedman)

In faded gabardine he used to stand
Down by the Union Station with that olâ‚¬â„¢ hat in his hand.
A banjo-pickinâ‚¬â„¢ devil, a singinâ‚¬â„¢ rag-time saint.
The young folks called him beautiful, the old folks called him quaint.

And the station-master pointed to the sign
And they busted him for loiterinâ‚¬â„¢ when he was makinâ‚¬â„¢ memories rhyme.
Out in the falling snow heâ‚¬â„¢d sing his song
To a world too cold to listen and too white to sing along.

Just a Nashville casualty and life
Done left him without a dime.
Ever since the good Lord took his wife
Youâ‚¬â„¢ll find him strumminâ‚¬â„¢ on the corner all the time.
And most of Music City never the saw the world within the song
Of a Nashville casualty and life â‚¬" goes on.

In the attic sets a dusty hat and cane
And the kids they found a banjo there all rusted from the rain.
I strummed a little rusty rag-time beat
And I sang for every soul out on the street.

I could almost see him standinâ‚¬â„¢ in the rain
His black and blinded face reflectinâ‚¬â„¢ all the pain
Of all the years and people passinâ‚¬â„¢ by
And all the ringinâ‚¬â„¢ memories that can make a banjo cry.

Just a Nashville casualty and life
It's a riff that's hell to play.
You sings for your livinâ‚¬â„¢ in the street
And you sleeps in the back of some caf
And most of Music City never sees the world within the song
Of a Nashville casualty and life â‚¬" goes on.

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