WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Blue Highway - Homeless Man Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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They called him Skeet, his name was Bill,
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Corporal William Howard Campbell,
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They never knew and never will.
[Verse 2]
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He did his time with the 101,
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They took a simple country boy,
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And taught him how to use a gun.
[Pre-Chorus 1]
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After four long years in service,
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Two tours in Vietnam,
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The country that he served so well,
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Doesn't seem to give a damn.
[Chorus]
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That he's a homeless man.
[Verse 3]
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He has a son, lives in L.A,
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He hasn't spoke to him in twenty years,
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He just don't know what to say.
[Verse 4]
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He had a loving wife, she was his right hand,
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Till the nightmares and the memories,
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Became more that she could stand.
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Now he has everything he owns,
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In a worn-out shopping cart,
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He's never begged for anything,
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He just doesn't have the heart.
[Chorus]
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He's a homeless man.
[Bridge]
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Now in this land of plenty,
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Where so many have it all,
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He sleeps in an alley,
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Half a block from city hall.
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
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They found him there one cold November night,
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Though he'd won so many battles,
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This time he'd lost the fight.
[Verse 6]
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No one seemed to care, that he was gone,
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They laid him in a pauper's grave,
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With a tiny little stone.
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As a young man and his mother,
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Sat alone and cried,
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Holding the Silver Star medallion,
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Someone found there at his side.
[Chorus]
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He was a homeless man,
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He was just a homeless man . . .
[Outro]
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(Fade Out)
