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How are you my lonesome child?

Haven’t seen you for awhile

How have you been getting on these days?

Last I saw you, you were broke

Out on the street, we barely spoke

Seems you and I are always parting ways

Then you went off the rails and I went straight

I remember when we met

It was way back when in Lafayette

You were on that timber-cuttin' crew

I was at the college then

Didn’t dance with working men

But thought I’d like to take a stroll with you

We wandered by the riverside

Watched the dogwood blossoms glide

Down the river heading out of state

Seems like that was you and me

Pulled along reluctantly

Never had much time to stop and wait

Then you went off the rails and I went straight

I won’t pretend I loved you all the while

We were kicking up and down the line

But now and then I think about your smile

Lord I wonder could I have eased your troubled mind

I moved out to Pensacola

You were playing rock and roll

Down in Tallahassee with the band

I waited for you once backstage

Then I had to turn that page

Hanging round was more than I could stand

Ten years and a thousand miles

Lived in Newport News awhile

You worked out of Norfolk hauling freight

Cooked me gumbo that July

Don’t know why we said goodbye

Seems you and I we’re always just too late

You went off the rails and I went straight

I won’t pretend I loved you all the while

We were kicking up and down the line

But now and then I think about your smile

Lord I wonder could I have eased your troubled mind

Now you’re back and look at you

Once they threw the book at you

Now you’re sitting pretty after all

Guess I should have known you’d slip

Out the back and through their grip

And find yourself a pleasant place to fall.

Ten years and a thousand miles

Adds up pretty quickly, child

But I’m not much inclined to contemplate

All I know is how I cried

Every time we said goodbye

Seems you and I we’re always just too late

You went off the rails and I went straight

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