Tom: Eb major
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Sam never believed that he ever could
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be anything special to anyone
But he didn't mind, no, he was the kind
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who could get along fine with everyone
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He had a job at the Texaco,
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if you were a stranger
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an d if things were slow,
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he'd be glad just to put it all down,
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he'd show you around
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Sam's town.
Well you know old Sam
had a little bit of land,
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a quarter section or so,
but the creek Rick ran shallow
and the fields lay fallow
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He couldn't get a thing to grow
came to his trailer one night
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Talkin' percentages and mineral rights
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Didn't take long for the
deal to go down
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They was sinkin' a drillin' rig
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deep in the ground
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Sam's ground
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Ain't life funny, ain't life strange
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Ain't it amazing how your
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Came rushing like a big black bull
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They were piping it out by
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the barrel full
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Pretty soon the word got round,
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down in Sam's town
Well some time went by,
the yield was high,
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the money just a -rollin' in
Still ol' Sam stayed a simple man,
on the old high school
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The church house finally
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got a brand new roof
a big playground
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Spreadin' every bit of that money
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around Sam's Town
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Well now ain't life funny,
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ain't life strange
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Ain't it amazing how your
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One day, like the Lord just
threw a switch,
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that well went as dry as a dust bowl ditch.
from the government.
where all that money went.
He said, well, I'd be proud
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to show you around,
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boy, our town.
Ain't life strange?
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Ain't it amazing how your
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The tax man auctioned off that land,
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but the town pitched in
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They bought it all back for him,
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at a greatly reduced price
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Now he's still down at the Texaco,
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if you're a stranger and things are slow
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He'd be glad just to lay it all down.
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He'd take you out,
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he'd show you around Sam's
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Town
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It's Uncle Sam's Town now,
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yeah
Thank you.
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