| Well the town’s a when you’re upside down
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| You lay your bones on a bed, it’s that easy
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| To have a kind of home
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| Where the money goes, I know too well
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| Spreads out like the jobs, I’ve worked so many
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| The hard days don’t seem to end
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| Well I’m wasting time, wasting time
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| And I only know one way to go to start again
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| Let it roll, let it roll down the banks of the Ohio
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| When you can’t rely on what you make to pay the rent on time
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| So I’m goin' away down to the
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| Oh way down there in Cairo, Illinois I’m gonna stay
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| Now what do you say when the bottle falls out
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| You try to make amends with anybody
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| That ever caused you pain
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| It’s no fault of mine that it should end this way
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| And I won’t apologize to anybody
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| For a thing that I can’t change
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| See I’m used to bein' along, used to bein' alone
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| See it’s the only way that I know how to get to where I’m goin'
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| Let it roll, let it roll down the banks of the Ohio
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| When you can’t rely on what you make to pay the rent on time
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| So I’m goin' away down to the
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| Oh way down there in Cairo, Illinois I’m gonna stay |
| Woah Cairo, you build your levees tall
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| I wanna sit beside the water and forget about it all
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| Let it roll, let it roll down the banks of the Ohio
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| When you can’t rely on what you make to pay the rent on time
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| So I’m goin' away down to the
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| Oh way down there in Cairo, Illinois I’m gonna stay |