| Well, he walked into town
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| He shot Johnny down
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| Then he sat on the green
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| He was back from the war
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| His brain was on fire
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| And he lived in the darkness of dreams
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| Heaven knows the kid
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| And the things that he did
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| Were wrong
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| But who is to blame?
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| It’s as much his crime
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| As it is yours and mine
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| Shine a light on the dark
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| Of Ghost Town, New York
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| We would sit by the tracks
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| Playing dice and jacks
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| When he lived at the Red Motor Inn
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| And when his mother OD’d
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| He was just a bad seed
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| And not one of us here took him in
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| Heaven knows the kid
|
| And the things that he did
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| Were wrong
|
| But who is to blame?
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| It’s as much his crime
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| As it is yours and mine
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| Shine a light on the dark
|
| Of Ghost Town, New York
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| It’s a left at the fork
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| To Cairo, New York
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| And that’s where I’m stranded in sorrow
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| But how can I go
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| The fields deep in snow
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| And no buses run 'til tomorrow
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| Heaven knows the kid
|
| And the things that he did
|
| Were wrong
|
| But who is to blame?
|
| It’s as much his crime
|
| As it is yours and mine
|
| Shine a light on the dark
|
| Of Ghost Town, New York
|
| Heaven knows the kid
|
| And the things that he did
|
| Were wrong
|
| But who is to blame?
|
| It’s as much his crime
|
| As it is yours and mine
|
| Shine a light on the dark
|
| Of Ghost Town, New York |