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They had my future wrapped up in a parcel

 and no one even thought of asking me.

 The day I turned fifteen I caght the mailtrain

 To find what else might be in life for me.

 I rode on trucks and trains and lived on nothing;

 Served me right for wanting to be free-

 Ah well that's the way society looked at it,

 But it didn't seem to be that way to me.

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 And the biggest disappointment in the family was me;

 the only twisted branch upon our good old fam'y tree

 I just couldn't be the person they ecpected me to be

 A7 And the biggest disappiontment in the world was me

A lot more dinner times than there dinners

I learned a lot that hurt me at the time

Then this quiet country boy came home a different man

with a memory of distance on my mind

But i always spoke to loud and drank to often,

Maybe drank to many glasses down

And perhaps my clothes were older that I realized

A relief to all concerned when I left town

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