I sure am...
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The tenderness of love's embrace
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Can sometimes leave a lonely taste
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Bobby Joe is jumping on a Western Union train
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The sun is high but Bobby's low
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His bags were packed so long ago
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He's just a shadow of a man with nothing left to lose
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So gather round and I will tell a story sad and true
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About a man called Bobby Joe
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A man that I once knew
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I told you how he acted tough
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Played the fool and lost his love
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While he was a-jumping on that Western Union train
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Woo Woo
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Woo Woo
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Without a home or family
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In a travelling theatre company
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I still recall that sunny day the circus came to town
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The whole town came to see the show
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Folks all laughed at Bobby Joe
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He tried to be an acrobat but always played the clown
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He met a girl called Mary Lou I saw them hand in hand
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Her father was the sheriff though and didn't understand
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And then the circus had to leave
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And Bobby said please wait for me
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I'll come back with some money and we'll buy a plot of land
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Now circus life does not pay much
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And Bobby lost his gambling touch
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The promises to Mary Lou still echoed in his head
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He robbed and stole in every town
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They never did suspect the clown
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Until one day he went too far and left a man for dead
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But in his hideout in the woods he thought of Mary Lou
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And in his mind he made a plan of things he had to do
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He got to see her right away
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So many things he got to say
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The need to know if she could ever love a wanted man
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That night he rode to Mary's place
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He hoped to see a friendly face
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But Sheriff Graves was waiting with a gun and several men
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They all took aim but no-one knew
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That at that moment Mary Lou
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Would come out of the shadows and run to her Bobby's arms
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But Mary never got there as a single shot was fired
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A bullet meant for Bobby meant that Mary's life expired
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But through his grief he fired his gun
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Until he was the only one alive with just a memory
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Now bloodstained with revenge
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So gather round and I will tell a story sad and true
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About a man called Bobby Joe
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A man that I once knew
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The tenderness of love's embrace
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Can sometimes leave a lonely taste
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Bobby Joe is jumping on a Western Union train
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Woo Woo
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Woo Woo
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Woo Woo
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Woo Woo
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Portrait Of A Legend
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Farmer's Boys |