God said don't give me your 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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Dreamin' of Jenny with the light brown hair
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Night is fallin' like a bloody axe
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Lies and rumours 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
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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 pawn.
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Birds cry warnin' from a hidden branch
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Carvin' 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 livin' in the palm on the grace of your hand
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World's not easy the blind man said
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Turns on nothin' but money and dread
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Dog's been scratchin' at the door all night
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Long neck birds flyin' 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 pawn
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Down to the pawn
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Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie
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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 alley been hidin' you
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Long bell tollin' 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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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 pawn
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Down to the pawn
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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Take the sins of my mother
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Take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pawn
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Down to the pawn
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God all mighty for righteousness sake
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Humiliation of our fallen state
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Writ' me the book of tubold Cain
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Long black overcoat 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 take me back?
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I'm gonna take the sons of my father
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Take the sins of my mother
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Take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pawn
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Down to the pawn
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Hang me in the mornin' on a scaffold yea big
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To dance upon nothin' to the tyborn jig
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Treats you like a puppet when your under his 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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Is 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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The wine's so pleasin' and so sublime
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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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 pawn
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Down to the pawn
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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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Twenty - nine days of sinnin'
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And forty 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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Roots grow upward and the branches grow down
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It's much too late to throw the dice again
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I've found
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I'm gonna take the sins of my father
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Take the sins of my mother
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Gonna take the sins of my brother
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Down to the pond
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I'm gonna wash them
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I'm gonna wash them
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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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Wash the sins of my brother
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'Til the water runs clear
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'Til the water runs clear
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'Til the water runs clear
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Sins Of The Father
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Tom Waits |