| Have you been down to Tin Town, where dreams in cans once were drowned.
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| A snag somewhere in someone’s life caught him there, pulled him to strife.
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| A bottle here, and there are left. |
| Many broken, the air is deaf.
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| With non-understanding vows, remember tears upon their brows.
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| In Tin Town, has-been town. |
| Tin Town, has-been town.
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| A tiny flag upon a mast, where camptown children played in past.
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| A river winding through the trees. |
| Banks eroded, extreme degrees.
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| Once a place to be baptized, when pentecostal need arise.
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| A shank or two with rotted plank. |
| A fish or two, their eyes are blank.
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| In Tin Town, has-been town. |
| Tin Town, has-been town.
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| Well I been down to Tin Town, where once a boy I did fall down.
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| And cut my arm on piled up junk. |
| I wrapped it up and I hailed a drunk.
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| He carried me three miles to home, where daddy said I was cut to the bone.
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| The doctor washed his hands and said, «Five more minutes, the boy’d been dead.»
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| Down where people lose their heads.
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| In Tin Town, has-been town. |
| Tin Town, has-been town. |
| I know you well.
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| Well I live here in Tin Town. |
| Not many people come around.
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| When when they do I smile at them. |
| And say, «Hello, it’s a mighty hot day.
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| Can you spare a man a dime? |
| I got thirty cents and I can buy some wine.
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| I’m livin' in my childhood schemes. |
| Please, mister, you can make my dreams (you
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| can make my dreams!).»
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| In Tin Town, has-been town. |
| Tin Town, has-been town.
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| It’s my home. |
| It’s my home. |
| It’s my home. |
| It’s my home. |