ORPHAN OF THE ROAD
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From a carnie show and a rodeo that shared a three-day stand,
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A cowboy met a fiery carnie queen
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In new spring nights amid the lights of the painted carnie van.
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They laughed and loved and shared short-lived dreams,
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But the carnie show and the rodeo went their separate ways,
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And the carnie season bloomed and soon moved on,
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And I was born on a winter morn to the dark-eyed carnie queen,
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The too-late son of something that was gone,
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The black-sheep child that grew up wild from the seed the four winds sowed,
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Unwanted son of ice and fire, an orphan of the road.

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I was still a child when my mama died of a chill that closed her eyes,
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So I was left to grow up on my own,
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Without a name, too wild to tame. No one cared to try.
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So mostly I was mostly left alone.
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In dingy bars and cold boxcars, hobo jungle camps,
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I joined the men who drift from town to town.
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The surgin' flood of restless blood flowed inside my veins.
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I'd never find the time to settle down.


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The black-sheep child that grew up wild from the seed the four winds sowed
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Unwanted son of ice and fire an orphan of the road

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In the misty rain, I caught the train that slowed down through the town,
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And I pulled myself into the boxcar door.
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In a passing light in the deep gray night, I saw the still dark form
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Of an old man lying sick upon the floor.
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And he said "I tried to find her, but they told me that she'd died,
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And that she'd left an only son behind,
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And I tried to find him, but I never did, but I know I could rest in peace
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If I could just see him once before I die."
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I found a match and I quickly scratched it into a flicker and flame,
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Then I held it close and I gently raised his head.
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"My mother, sir," I said of her, "I have her same dark eyes."
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He smiled a cowboy smile and then was dead.
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The black-sheep child that grew up wild from the seed the four winds sowed
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Unwanted son of ice and fire an orphan of the road