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  They had my future wrapped up in a parcel 
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and no one even thought of asking me. 
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The day I turned fifteen I caght the mailtrain 
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To find what else might be in life for me. 
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I rode on trucks and trains and lived on nothing; 
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Served me right for wanting to be free-  
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Ah well that's the way society looked at it,  
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But it didn't seem to be that way to me. 
 
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And the biggest disappointment in the family was me; 
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the only twisted branch upon our good old fam'y tree 
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I just couldn't be the person they ecpected me to be 
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A7 And the biggest disappiontment in the world was me 
 
 
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A lot more dinner times than there dinners 
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I learned a lot that hurt me at the time 
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Then this quiet country boy came home a different man  
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with a memory of distance on my mind 
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But i always spoke to loud and drank to often,  
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Maybe drank to many glasses down 
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And perhaps my clothes were older that I realized 
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A relief to all concerned when I left town 
 
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