God said don't give me your
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Tin horn prayers
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Don't buy roses off the street down there
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Took it all and took the dirt road home
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Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair
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Night is falling like a bloody axe
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Lies and rumors and the wind at my back
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Hand on the wheel gravel on the road
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Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
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I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pond
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Birds cry warning from a hidden branch
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Carving out a future with a gun and an axe
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I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man
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Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand
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The worlds not easy the blind man said
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Turns on nothing but money and dread
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Dogs been scratching at the door all nite
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Long neck birds flying out of the moon light
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
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I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pond
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Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie
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The star spangled glitter of his one good eye
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Everybody knows that the game was rigged
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Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig
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Dark town alleys been hiding you
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Long bell tolling is your waterloo
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Oh baby what can you do
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Does the light of god blind you
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Or lead the way home for you?
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
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I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pond
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God all mighty for righteousness sake
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Humiliation of our fallen state
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Written in the book of tubold Cain
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A long black over coat will show no stain
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Feel the heat and the burn on your back
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The rip and the moan and the stretch of the rack
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All my belongings in a flour sack
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Will the place I come from
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Take me back
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
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I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pond
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They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big
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To dance upon nothing to the tyborn jig
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Treats you like a puppet when your under its spell
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Oh the heart is heaven
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But the mind is hell
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Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds
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I's born at this time for a reason you see
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When I'm dead I"ll be dead a long time
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But the wines so pleasing and so sublime
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
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I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pond
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Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree
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Everything I done is between God and me
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Only he will judge how my time was spent
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29 days of sinning and 40 to repent
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The horse is steady but the horse is blind
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Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind
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The roots grow upwared and the branches grow down
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Its much too late to throw the dice again I've found
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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I'm gonna take the sins of my mother
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I'm gonna take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pond
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I'm gonna wash them [2x]
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I'm gonna wash the sins of my Father
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I'm gonna wash the sins of my Mother
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I'm gonna wash the sins of my Brother
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Till the water runs clear [2x]
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Sins Of My Father
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Tom Waits |