Dave Graney
                            Warren Oates

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He’s got a face like 200 miles of country road, don’t go in there you’ll get lost
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Every cigarette, every drink, every doomed affair,  uh,  yeah,   yeah,  aaah

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Sitting across from you at the chat'n'chew, a bloodstained airways bag at his feet
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Flies drunk in the heat walk in Spencer Street, the sideburns, curly hair
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Hands in his pockets, single rooms, fifteen bucks a night, aaah  yeah

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Hey,   Warren Oates,   alright yeah,   yeah,   Warren Oates,   alright yeah
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Walking alone, drinking alone, driving slow and parked outside your home
  Em
Sleeping just like anybody else

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He was really out there away inside amongst the tall trees
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The white water breaking at the edge of his lips nobody could reach him
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He could get to us any time, ah yeah,   aaah

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A banged up old holden covered in red dust on the side of the city
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A cracked voice and a beer who’s gonna believe him, oh who’s he gonna believe
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Who’s gonna stand up for him, ah yeah, uh aaah

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Hey,   Warren Oates,   alright yeah,   yeah,   Warren Oates,   alright man
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Walking alone, drinking alone, driving slow and parked outside your home
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Sleeping just like anybody else
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Walking alone, drinking alone, driving slow and parked outside your home
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There with no grace of no God you go through the United States of Warren Oates

.....chords by Danny Lloyd