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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Lefty Clark was a young man,
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he was a handsome Sunday athlete
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Wrote stories for the paper down
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on main street
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And chances he had chances to
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es cape the small town life
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But his brother was deaf and dum
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b and couldn't be left behind
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Verse 2
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But depression was going strong then,
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actors were on the road
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One hot July girl came through
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in a WPA show
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She was city- bred and beautiful
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A lady to her fingertips
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As much at home in her velvet shoes
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As Lefty was in his
Verse 3
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They fell in love on the courthouse square
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But pretty soon her show moved on
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And she couldn't stay
and Lefty couldn't go
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Verse 4
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So the years passed and Lefty grew old
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With only his brother home
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And when Dummy died, it was too late
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To find any place else and so
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Some nights he'd have
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a little whiskey
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For the summer on his mind
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And open his trunk and hold
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two velvet shoes
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And sit and cry
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He'd sit and cry
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Verse 5
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Most of the time he was Lefty
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who always had a joke
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Was good to his friends and neighbors
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And never whispered of being alone
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He hit sixty- eight all by himself
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with tobacco on his chin
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A TV dinner in the oven
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And a few friends dropping in
Verse 6
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Still once each billion chances
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There's justice in the world
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And late that year he finally heard
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from the long- lost velvet girl
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She was still so beautiful, tall,
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silver- haired and proud
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They took walks like they used to take
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Before the last summer run out
Verse 7
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She said, "Better late than never,
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let me sit, you took a while"
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She spoke her life with sadness,
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and he spoke with a smile
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He'd sit and smile
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He'd sit and smile
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He'd sit and smile
Outro 1
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