CRAZY AS A LOON
JOHN PRINE

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Back before I was a movie star
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Straight off of the farm
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I had a picture of another man's wife
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Tattoed on my arm
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With a pack of Camel cigarettes
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In the sleeve of my tee shirt
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I was heading out to Hollywood
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Just to have my feelings hurt


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That town will make you crazy
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Just give it a little time
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You'll be walking 'round in circles
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Down at Hollywood and Vine
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You'll be waitin' on a phone call
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At the wrong end of a broom
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Yes that town'll make you crazy
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Crazy as a loon


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So I headed down to Nashville
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To become a country star
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Every night you'd find me hangin'
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At every honky-tonk and bar
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Pretty soon I met a woman
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Pretty soon she done me wrong
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Pretty soon my life got sadder
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Than any country song


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That town'll make you crazy
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Just give it a little time
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You'll be walkin' 'round in circles
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Lookin' for that country rhyme
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You'll be waitin' on a phone call
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At the wrong ened of a broom
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Yes that town'll make you crazy
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Crazy as a loon


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So I gathered up my savvy
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Bought myself a business suit
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I headed up to New York City
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Where a man can make some loot
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I got hired Monday morning
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Downsized that afternoon
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Overcome with grief that evening
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Now I'm crazy as a loon


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So I'm up here in the north woods
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Just staring at a lake
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Wondering just exactly how much
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They think a man can take
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I eat fish to pass the time away
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'Neath this blue Canadian moon
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This old world has made me crazy
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Crazy as a loon
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Lord this world will make you crazy 
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Crazy as a loon