Ben Nichols - The Kid

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Your mother died night you were born
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Her name you never knew
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Look away, look away nothing to lose
 
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Left East Tennessee at fourteen
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Wandered to the West
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Look away,look away born into death
 
 
 
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You fought the sailors in New Orleans
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You worked the flatboats and walked the streets
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Hit Nacogdoches in 49
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And there you saw the devil the very first time
 
 
 
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Kid don’t you know me?
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We are the last of the true
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Drink up! Drink up!
F                 G        C
Drink up! Drink up!
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Cause tonight your souls required of you
 
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Signed on with a stone mad captain
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Rode on Mexico
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Look away, look away war behold
 
 
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Jailed with killers one and all
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But we were killers free
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Look away, look away, look to me
 
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You saw the lancers mid heathen hordes
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Bloodstained veils and costumes of war
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Hell ain’t half full boy hear me
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War is the game and the god we seek
 
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We set out as men of reason
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Armed with Navy Colts
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Look away,look away, work paid in gold
 
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But you stood witness to yourself
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Our trial you did betray
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Look away,look away to judgment day
 
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We killed in the desert we killed in the streets
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We chose what shall and shall not be
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We stood with pistols, fought back to back
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Now youve stood your ground but what ground is that?
 
 
C                        F
Kid don’t you know me?
C                                   F
We are the last of the true
F                 G       C
Drink up! Drink up!
F                 G        C
Drink up! Drink up!
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Cause tonight your souls required of you