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This ol' boy lived down the road from me
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Used to drive a beat-up Dodge
Well, he showed up drunk as hell one night
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Parked in my garage
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I had to ask him how'd he get so lost
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That you can't find your way home
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He said:
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I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long
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I didn't know ehere else to go
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I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long
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I didn't know where else to go
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See, his wife she left him
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An' took the kids
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An' he never was the same
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I guess they were all that he'd been livin' for
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An'he shouldered all the blame
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Well he always wondered what made her give up
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God, if he'd only known
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She'd be runnin' 'round in circles so long
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She didn't know ehere else to go
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She'd been runnin' 'round in circles so long
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She didn't know ehere else to go
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Well, this ol' boy lived down the road from me
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Today they laid him in the ground
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He drove that ol' Dodge right off the river bridge
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Without even slowin' down
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And he left a letter he wrote to his ol' man
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Said: I just lost control
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I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long
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I didn't know ehere else to go
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I've been runnin' 'round in circles so long
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I didn't know where else to go