He Died A Rounder At 21

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He drank whiskey for his liver,
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Smoked cigarettes for his lungs,
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He loved women for his ego
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he died a rounder at twenty one

[Verse 1]
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He wouldn't work down at the saw mill
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he couldn't stand that hot sunshine
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He had twenty one years of real life
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he lived a thousand in that time

[Verse 2]
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One night when the blues had got him,
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He must have drank three fifths of rum...
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He got mean as hell when I told him
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he wouldn't live past twenty one
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And if a man ever hit me harder
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well I don't know where or when
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He picked me up off that old bar floor
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he said I'd shore like to be your friend
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[Verse 3]
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One night I saw him talkin'
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To an old man at the bar
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He said Daddy, oh I love you,
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I just don't like where you are
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Well tell Mama to turn my lights on,
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turn down that feather bed.
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I'll be twenty one tomorrow
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but tomorrow, he was dead.

[Verse 4]
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It's twenty one miles to that graveyard,
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where Twenty one roses red,
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They told the story of that rounder
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who at twenty one he was dead....

[Chorus]
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He drank whiskey for his liver
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He Smoked cigarettes for his lungs
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He loved the women for his ego
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He died a rounder at twenty one
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He died a rounder at tweeeeeeeeenty one.