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  I've witnessed those 1 night stands must've played in a 1000 bands,
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  but I'm just here tonight tomorrow I'll be gone, seen folks show there
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  blacker side, seen em die just for foolish pride, and those drivers always
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  ask to hear that same old song.
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  CHORUS: Thats a big 10-4 from you're back door just put that hammer down
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          this young man feels those 18 wheels that keep turning round to
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          take me down to shaky town.


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  I've heard all those hard luck tales from all of you u.s. males, I've
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  heard you tell those lies about the love you've known and I've followed
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  those highway sings and I've run down those thin white lines, like those
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  drivers  this old road is all I call my own

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  {ALL THE WAY DOWN TO SHAKY TOWN} 4 times