《Let Him Roll》歌词

[00:00:00] Let Him Roll - Guy Clark

[00:00:25] Well he was wino tried and true

[00:00:28] Done about everything there is to do

[00:00:30] He worked on freighters an' he'd worked in bars

[00:00:33] He worked on farms an' he'd worked on cars

[00:00:37] It was white port that put that look in his eye

[00:00:41] Grown men get when they need to cry

[00:00:43] We sat down on the curb to rest

[00:00:46] And his head just fell down on his chest

[00:00:50] He says: "Every single day it gets

[00:00:53] "Just a little bit harder to handle and yet "

[00:00:58] Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered

[00:01:01] And the words just rolled off down the gutter

[00:01:05] Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel

[00:01:08] In exchange for the rent on a one room cell

[00:01:11] An' he's old: years beyond his time

[00:01:14] No thanks to the world and the white port wine

[00:01:19] So he said: "Son " He always called me son

[00:01:21] Said: "Life for you has just begun "

[00:01:24] An' then he told me the story I'd heard before

[00:01:27] How he fell in love with a Dallas whore

[00:01:31] Now he could cut through the years to the very night

[00:01:34] When it ended in a whore house fight

[00:01:38] And she turned his last proposal down

[00:01:41] In favor of being a girl about town

[00:01:44] Now it's been seventeen years right in line

[00:01:47] He ain't been straight in none of the time

[00:01:51] It's too many days of fightin' the weather

[00:01:53] An' too many nights of not being together

[00:01:59] So he died

[00:02:14] Instrumental break

[00:02:22] An' when they went through his personal effects

[00:02:25] In among the stubs from the welfare checks

[00:02:27] Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door

[00:02:31] An' an address in Dallas and nothin' more

[00:02:35] An' the welfare people provided the priest

[00:02:38] A couple from the mission down the street

[00:02:40] Sang "Amazing Grace" and no one cried

[00:02:43] 'Cept some lady in black way off to the side

[00:02:48] We all left and she's standing there

[00:02:50] A black veil covering her silver hair

[00:02:53] Ol' One-Eyed John said her name was Alice

[00:02:57] An' she used to be a whore in Dallas

[00:03:00] So let him roar Lord let him roll

[00:03:07] I bet he's gone to Dallas rest his soul

[00:03:12] Just you let him roll Lord let him roar

[00:03:19] He always said that heaven

[00:03:22] Was just a Dallas whore

[00:03:24] Just you let him roar Lord let him roll

[00:03:31] I bet he's gone to Dallas rest his soul