Sam Stone-Al Kooper

[ti:Sam Stone] [ar:Al Kooper] [al:Al's Big Deal/Unclaimed Freight] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sam Stone - Al Kooper (Al Kooper) [00:15.16]Sam Stone came home to his wife and family [00:21.18] [00:22.57]After serving in the conflict overseas [00:27.88] [00:29.69]Now in the time that he had served [00:32.48] [00:33.21]It had shattered all his nerves [00:36.23] [00:37.19]And it left a little shrapnel in his knee [00:42.21] [00:44.62]But the morphine eased the pain [00:47.68] [00:48.36]And the grass grew round his brain [00:51.22] [00:52.11]And it gave him all the confidence he lacked [00:56.99] [00:59.50]With a purple heart and a monkey on his back [01:04.38] [01:06.70]There's a hole in daddy's arm [01:09.74] [01:10.51]Where all the money goes [01:12.72] [01:15.44]Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose [01:19.49] [01:21.74]Now little pitchers have big ears [01:24.66] [01:25.46]But don't just stop to count the years [01:28.60] [01:30.27]Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios [01:36.52] [01:40.72]Sam Stone's welcome home [01:43.40] [01:44.40]Didn't last too long [01:46.37] [01:48.21]No he went to work after he spread his last dime [01:53.37] [01:55.64]And then Sammy [01:56.53] [01:57.53]Took to stealing [01:58.49] [01:59.44]When he get that empty feeling [02:02.18] [02:03.15]For a hundred dollar habit without overtime [02:08.34] [02:10.45]And the cold rolled through his veins [02:13.16] [02:14.18]Like a thousand railroad trains [02:17.28] [02:17.85]And it eased his mind in the hours [02:20.87] [02:21.41]That he chose [02:23.08] [02:25.08]While the kids ran around [02:26.92]Wearin' other peoples' clothes [02:30.27] [02:32.55]There's a hole in daddy's arm [02:35.46] [02:36.20]Where all the money goes [02:38.37] [02:40.89]Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose [02:45.16] [02:47.43]Now little pitchers have big ears [02:50.28] [02:51.06]But don't just stop to count the years [02:54.03] [02:55.84]Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios [03:01.98] [03:06.25]Sam Stone was alone [03:09.10] [03:09.89]When he popped his last balloon [03:12.66] [03:14.68]Climbing walls while sit there in a chair [03:18.91] [03:21.07]He played his last request [03:23.71] [03:24.74]While the room stormed just like death [03:27.36] [03:28.40]With an overdose just hovering in the air [03:33.26] [03:35.71]But life had lost dollar it's fun [03:38.39] [03:39.24]And now there's nothing to be done [03:42.39] [03:43.03]But to trade his home that he bought on the G I Bill [03:47.76] [03:48.69]For what [03:49.51] [03:50.56]A flag draped casket on some local heroes' hill [03:55.14] [03:57.64]There's a hole in daddy's arm [04:00.75] [04:01.35]Where all the money goes [04:03.44] [04:06.17]Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose [04:10.24] [04:12.58]Little pitchers have big ears [04:15.32] [04:16.04]But don't just stop to count the years [04:19.37] [04:20.90]Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios [04:27.49]Sam Stone [04:30.74] [04:31.30]Sam Stone