Let Him Roll
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Johnny Cash
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(upbeat country music)
♪ Let him roll, boys, let him roll ♪
♪ I bet he's gone to
Dallas, rest his soul ♪
♪ Now he was a wino, tried and true ♪
♪ Done about everything there is to do ♪
♪ He worked on freighters,
he worked in bars ♪
♪ He worked on farms
and he worked on cars ♪
♪ Now it was white port wine
that put that look in his eye ♪
♪ That grown men get
when they need to cry ♪
♪ And we sat down on the curb to rest ♪
♪ And his head just
fell down on his chest ♪
♪ He said every single day ♪
♪ It gets just a little bit
harder to handle and yet ♪
♪ Then he lost the thread
and his mind got cluttered ♪
♪ The words just rolled
off down in the gutter ♪
♪ He was a elevator man in a cheap hotel ♪
♪ In exchange for the
rent on a one-room cell ♪
♪ And he's years old before his time ♪
♪ No thanks to the world
and the white port wine ♪
♪ So he said, son, he
always called me son ♪
♪ He said life for you has just begun ♪
♪ And then he told me the
story that I'd heard before ♪
♪ How he fell in love
with a Dallas whore ♪
♪ He could cut through the
years to the very night ♪
♪ That it all ended in
a whorehouse fight ♪
♪ And she turned his last proposal down ♪
♪ In favor of being a girl about town ♪
♪ Now it's been 17 years right in line ♪
♪ And he ain't been
straight none of the time ♪
♪ It's too many years of
fightin' the weather ♪
♪ And too many nights
of not being together ♪
♪ So he died ♪
♪ Let him roll, boys, let him roll ♪
♪ I'll bet he's gone to
Dallas, rest his soul ♪
♪ Let him roll, boys, let him roll ♪
♪ He always thought that heaven
was just a Dallas whore ♪
♪ When they went through
his personal affects ♪
♪ In among the stubs
from the welfare checks ♪
♪ Was a crumblin' picture
of a girl in a door ♪
♪ An address in Dallas and nothin' more ♪
♪ Well the welfare people
provided the priest ♪
♪ And the couple from the
mission down the street ♪
♪ Sang Amazing Grace and nobody cried ♪
♪ Except some lady in
black way off to the side ♪
♪ We all left and she's standing there ♪
♪ The black veil covering
her silver hair ♪
♪ And old one-eyed John
said her name was Alice ♪
♪ She used to be a whore in Dallas ♪
♪ Let him roll, boys, let him roll ♪
♪ I bet he's gone to
Dallas, rest his soul ♪
♪ Let him roll, boys, let him roll ♪
♪ He always thought that heaven
was just a Dallas whore ♪
♪ Let him roll, boys, let him roll ♪
♪ Let him roll ♪
