Intro:
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He spends all his weeks in the bread line 
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He spends all his weekends in jail 
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He spends all his money on dead ends 
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And always has something for sale 
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He doesn’t know how to do different 
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He lives with his head in the sand 
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Playing his role 
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Stuck on the dole 
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The son of a landless man 

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No one never called him ambitious 
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He never pretended to be 
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He bummed around the pool halls to kill time 
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When he dropped out of school at sixteen 
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It was there that he met his ex-wife 
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It should have ended before it began 
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She batted her eye lids and had a few kids 
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With the son of a landless man 
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With the son of a landless man 

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Now the wife and the kids are gone now 
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He don’t have a clue where they are 
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As one night he pulled out a rifle 
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In an argument he took too far 
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Now someone says he cant see them 
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It’ll be a long time before he can 
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His three little girls, all giggles and curls 
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and the son of a landless man 
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Another son of a landless man 

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