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Verse 1

Well he woke up that mornin' and he called into work

Put on his daddy's old suit with a 2nd hand shirt

All un-tucked, shoes un-tied

People all snickered as he walked by

So he stopped into a bar and bought a shot of Stephen's

And another

He bummed a cigarette instead of talkin' with a stranger

About the weather

And then he paid his bill and he stepped outside

And fell down into the street

He cursed and he cried as he climbed back up to his

feet again

Verse 2

So up the road he found a payphone and called his mom

He said Mom I think I'll be coming home

I've been feeling so bad, I'm tired of this city.

Ain't been the same since I lost my pretty

Angeline, and Mom I miss her

so.

It's been over a year and there ain't nothin' I fear

So much as being alone.

And then he hung up the phone without saying good bye

Stopped in the store and bought a postcard and signed it

Fare the well, and sent it back home

To Yuma.

(Instrumental transition)

Bridge

Looking back I'd say,

It wasn't so much the girl

As it was the booze and the dope

And the way he took the weight of the world up upon his

Shoulders

And then he washed the blue from his eyes as he grew

colder

After all those lonely nights there left alone.

(Instrumental transition)

Verse 3

So he was just 23 when he stepped out on that ledge

It was his weary heart that pushed him to the edge

He was tired of living life, looking for love.

A weary heart just needs a little touch

And it is too much to ask, he cried as he stepped into the

wind.

He turned his back on the world and he fell back to earth

again.

So with the wind in his hair and a smile on his face

He crashed through the hood of an Oldes 98

And he lay there and died on a cold winter's day

All alone

All alone.

--crookedpath