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Bruce Donnola: Music

Joe Sawyer

(Bruce Donnola/BMI)
1998

The name's Joe Sawyer and there's not much to tell you
I got a job and a place with my wife Hallie
I had some big plans once but now that's all over
Suffice to say this guitar ain't getting younger.

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Not a great man
Not a bad man
Not a kingmaker
Not a heartbreaker
Ooh, just Joe Sawyer

WHen I was 22 I hit the highway
I headed westward to make my name someway
West where they make wine out of water
West where they say that time don't matter

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Never you mind
I'm better off than others
One day you find
Success was not some name you made
It was just a song you sang and played

And late at night on the porch
When summer's almost over
I sit and play my guitar
All night foever
And Hallie sings with me so sweet and plaintive.
And you know those harmonies, well, they were all I ever wanted

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