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[00:00.000]Sold American - Kinky Friedman
[00:03.174]Faded jaded falling
[00:06.356]Cowboy star
[00:09.780]Pawnshops itching for your
[00:13.025]Old guitar
[00:16.539]Where you're going
[00:19.116]God only knows
[00:22.516]The sequins have fallen
[00:24.753]From your clothes
[00:29.945]Once you heard the opry
[00:33.097]Crowd applaud
[00:36.297]Now you're hanging out at
[00:39.397]Fourth and broad
[00:41.717]On the rain wet sidewalk
[00:45.659]Remembering the time
[00:48.331]When coffee with a friend
[00:51.645]Was still a dime
[00:55.988]And everythings been
[00:59.344]Sold american
[01:02.440]The early times is finished
[01:04.796]And the want ads all are read
[01:09.435]Everyones been
[01:12.541]Sold american
[01:15.773]In dreaming dreams in a rollaway bed
[01:24.032]Writing down your memoirs on some window
[01:27.829]In the frost
[01:30.780]Roulette eyes reflecting
[01:33.401]Another morning lost
[01:36.900]Hauled in by the metro
[01:39.415]For killing time and pain
[01:42.788]With a singing brakeman
[01:44.864]Screaming through your veins
[01:50.948]And everythings been
[01:53.882]Sold american
[01:56.682]The lonely night is mourning
[01:59.274]For the death it never dies
[02:04.196]Everyones been
[02:07.171]Sold american
[02:09.354]Don't let me catch you laughing
[02:12.164]When the jukebox cries
[02:18.190]You told me you were born so much higher than life
[02:24.317]But I've seen the faded pictures of your children and your wife
[02:30.994]Now they're fumbling through your wallet and
[02:34.350]They're trying to find your name
[02:37.970]It's almost like they raise the price of fame
[02:45.344]And everythings been sold american
[02:51.421]No place to go and brother
[02:54.764]No place to stay
[02:59.201]Everyones been
[03:01.681]Sold american
[03:03.840]Just let that golden greyhound roll your soul away