| Tonight my heart’s as heavy as these cold gray walls of stone
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| Cause I know I’ll see my last sunrise with tomorrow’s early dawn
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| Cause an old gray haired judge said guity for your crime you must pay
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| So with the final curtain falling I relived my life today
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| From the time my mama tucked me so gently in my bed
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| And said son don’t worry about tomorrow that’s another dream ahead
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| To the sad eyed old barber that just shaved my head and slipped away
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| These’re the first and final chapters of my life I relived today
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| I remember the prettiest girl I ever knew with big bue eyes and lips so sweet
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| How every Saturday back on the farm we’d go swimmin' in the creek
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| And the big tent revivals where all the neighbors would sing and pray
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| That’s another chapter of my ife I relived today
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| There’s my old faithful dog that walked in every step I made
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| Sometimes he’d folowed me to school
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| And just laid around there and wait in the shade
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| When my final class was over and on the way home we’d run and play
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| That’s just another chapter of my life I relived today
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| My brother Jim died in his cradle some kinds of fever they didn’t know what
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| Dad used to look at me and say son now you’re the only little man I’ve got
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| But somewhere along life’s pathway fate took my hand and I went astray
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| That’s another chapter of my ife I relived today
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| Yes tonight my heart’s as heavy as these cold gray walls of stone
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| Cause I know I’ll see my last sunrise with tomorrow’s early dawn
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| Cause an old gray haired judge said guity for your crime you must pay
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| So with the final curtain falling I relived my life today |