Boy From Old Perlican

	  		
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Stranded in Nashville.         I’m a Boy from Old Perlican. 
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I went Buskin’ down Broadway I made 4 bucks American. 
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An’ I’m homesick and wishin’ I was still back home fishin’ 
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But all those times are gone. 
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How strange to be in Tennessee singin’ Newfoundland Songs 

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I crossed over the border ‘neath the light from the stars. 
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‘ had the luck of da Irish I had my daddy’s guitar. 
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It’s Gibson     J   45,        it’s gonna keep me alive. 
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And comfort me midnight ‘til dawn. 
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Aw how strange to be here in Tennessee  
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Singin’ Newfoundland Songs 

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I know it isn’t Hank Williams, though I can sing him as well. 
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I Sing Jimmy Roger’s Blue Yodel,     I sing Lefty………. Frizzell.  
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And I’m a stranger here in Tennessee I’m a boy from around the bay 
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Ah yeah, but I know how to sing boys and I know how to play. 
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‘Cause my daddy taught me, taught me these words, taught me these chords. 
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And he taught me before he passed on. 
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Ah how strange to be in Tennessee singin’ hard hard times 
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Singin’ kid on the pond. 
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Singin’ Newfoundland songs. 
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If there’s one small consolation here in these desperate times. 
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All those Nashville songwriters are tryin’ to look like Ron Hynes. 
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How strange to be in Tennessee singin’ Newfoundland Songs.