Lonely Street

Intro: E5 


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Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street 
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Well, it sure don't seem like twenty years 
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Since I went walking down this lonely street 
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And the smell of perfumed ladies filled the air 


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This street ain't got no name, dead end is in the river 
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And I lived where I hated life day by day 
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There wasn't nothing I could do   to shake a cold night shiver 
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'Cause to move up Lonely Street you had to have some say 


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Gambling is bad luck down on Lonely Street 
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And it sure ain't no place to be when a man gets sore 
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You know I killed a man and I paid all I can 
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With twenty years on a chain gang 
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For the flesh and the blood on that jailhouse floor 


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Sometimes when I'm walking down    this lonely street 
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I get caught up in a dream that won't let me go 
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And as the bright lights flash up and down this lonely street 
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My mind rolls back the years long time ago 

 
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I see my baby stumblin' around with tears in her eyes 
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And as I reach out for her she falls on the floor 
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She mumbles through bloody lips about a black man, robber, raper 
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And in my gut I know I got one to score 
E5 
Ay yeah! 

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    Take it baby! 

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I need somebody 
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Oh yeah 
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I need somebody yeah 

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      I need it!! 
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      I need it!!! 
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      I need it!!! 
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      Yeah I need it 
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    Ahhhh yeah!! 

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The word was comin' down, down on Lonely Street 
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That the black man was a dead man if he crossed my trail 
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         Every night I'd walk up and down this Lonely Street 
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I get stinkin' drunk, and always in jail 


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  One night they threw me in with a man they called the mangler 
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 He was caught on the street rapin' some old whore 
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I remember he was quite proud of that 
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So half-crazed I shot him 
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And I cried in the blood on that jailhouse floor 
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Oh, I don't want no more 

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