Been Gone-Frank Foster

[ti:Been Gone] [ar:Frank Foster] [al:Southern Soul] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Been Gone - Frank Foster [00:03.73]Well they married early like young lovers do he worked two jobs [00:13.40] [00:14.56]And put her through school [00:15.91] [00:21.04]He gave his last dollar she got her degree [00:26.17] [00:29.30]And after all his sacrificed she still had the nerve to leave [00:35.37] [00:40.06]Now there's a quarter moon in a ten cent town yeah she's moving up [00:50.51] [00:51.69]And he's going down she's on the high road and he's alone [01:03.48] [01:06.93]He's been drinking and she's been gone [01:09.96] [01:24.32]She left her heart open got swept off of her feet by a man [01:32.71]With all the finer things and a lot of money [01:36.26] [01:41.10]She broke the news and broke his heart [01:43.47] [01:45.55]And loaded up her car she headed off to dallas [01:51.56] [01:53.62]And he headed off to the bar [01:55.92] [02:00.85]Now it's a quarter til noon [02:02.64] [02:04.30]In a ten cent town yeah she's moving up [02:10.97] [02:12.33]And he's going down [02:13.33] [02:18.83]She's on the high road and he's alone [02:24.16] [02:27.55]He's been drinking and she's been gone [02:30.65] [02:53.24]You know sometimes when a heart gets broke with a little time [02:58.72] [02:59.97]It can heal oh but when the scars are a little too deep [03:04.48] [03:05.87]Sometimes a broken heart can kill [03:09.04] [03:10.67]He had whiskey on his last breath all them years [03:14.90] [03:15.59]Were just too hard his last words were bury me [03:20.72] [03:22.13]Out in the back yard and time also found her regretting [03:33.16]What she'd done and she thought of him in her old life [03:39.07] [03:41.66]And she headed back home [03:43.08] [03:49.07]Now it's a quarter til noon [03:50.88] [03:52.92]In a ten cent town and she pulls up [04:01.06] [04:02.02]As they lower him down [04:03.80] [04:10.14]And she cries oh no when she sees the headstone [04:16.47] [04:20.32]Now she's been drinking and he's been gone