Let Him Roll-Guy Clark

[ti:Let Him Roll] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:The Essential Guy Clark] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Let Him Roll - Guy Clark [00:25.51]Well he was wino tried and true [00:27.44] [00:28.25]Done about everything there is to do [00:30.12] [00:30.87]He worked on freighters an' he'd worked in bars [00:33.24] [00:33.81]He worked on farms an' he'd worked on cars [00:36.05] [00:37.80]It was white port that put that look in his eye [00:40.42] [00:41.04]Grown men get when they need to cry [00:43.10] [00:43.85]We sat down on the curb to rest [00:46.60]And his head just fell down on his chest [00:48.78] [00:50.78]He says: "Every single day it gets [00:53.65]"Just a little bit harder to handle and yet " [00:57.39] [00:58.52]Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered [01:01.39]And the words just rolled off down the gutter [01:03.76] [01:05.75]Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel [01:08.56]In exchange for the rent on a one room cell [01:11.62]An' he's old: years beyond his time [01:14.55]No thanks to the world and the white port wine [01:17.11] [01:19.05]So he said: "Son " He always called me son [01:21.73]Said: "Life for you has just begun " [01:23.79] [01:24.85]An' then he told me the story I'd heard before [01:27.59]How he fell in love with a Dallas whore [01:29.84] [01:31.96]Now he could cut through the years to the very night [01:34.71]When it ended in a whore house fight [01:37.45] [01:38.02]And she turned his last proposal down [01:40.57] [01:41.20]In favor of being a girl about town [01:43.26] [01:44.56]Now it's been seventeen years right in line [01:47.99]He ain't been straight in none of the time [01:50.61] [01:51.24]It's too many days of fightin' the weather [01:53.17] [01:53.86]An' too many nights of not being together [01:56.48] [01:59.54]So he died [02:00.29] [02:14.33]Instrumental break [02:15.25] [02:22.53]An' when they went through his personal effects [02:24.34] [02:25.16]In among the stubs from the welfare checks [02:27.84]Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door [02:30.15] [02:31.21]An' an address in Dallas and nothin' more [02:32.89] [02:35.20]An' the welfare people provided the priest [02:37.20] [02:38.26]A couple from the mission down the street [02:40.63]Sang "Amazing Grace" and no one cried [02:43.50]'Cept some lady in black way off to the side [02:46.18] [02:48.31]We all left and she's standing there [02:50.30] [02:50.86]A black veil covering her silver hair [02:53.80]Ol' One-Eyed John said her name was Alice [02:56.23] [02:57.60]An' she used to be a whore in Dallas [02:59.48] [03:00.60]So let him roar Lord let him roll [03:06.18] [03:07.49]I bet he's gone to Dallas rest his soul [03:10.92] [03:12.35]Just you let him roll Lord let him roar [03:17.97] [03:19.16]He always said that heaven [03:21.03] [03:22.21]Was just a Dallas whore [03:24.52]Just you let him roar Lord let him roll [03:29.51] [03:31.01]I bet he's gone to Dallas rest his soul