Town Drunk-Love and Theft

[ti:Town Drunk] [ar:Love and Theft] [al:Love And Theft] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Town Drunk - Love and Theft [00:00.02] [00:12.97]She used to come over to my house [00:15.84]She only lived a few miles away [00:19.15]I never knew why but my mama said [00:21.97]If she wanted to she could stay [00:25.53]A pretty little girl who fought like a boy [00:28.47]But she wanted to hold my hand [00:31.78]And the little blue dress that she always wore [00:34.72]Yeah it might have been her only friend [00:38.22] [00:44.39]I remember that summer like yesterday [00:47.40]She used to hang around all the time [00:50.89]Down by the creek we would always play [00:53.70]And tell secrets by the porch light [00:57.08]Shy as a bird and timid as a flower [01:00.02]I wonder where she grew up [01:03.20]I never really thought that much about it [01:06.39]But everybody said her daddy was the town drunk [01:10.96] [01:13.20]Broken like a bottle [01:15.96]Running from the only home she ever had [01:20.14]Tangled in the talk behind her back [01:25.19]Yeah he thought she was nothing [01:28.07]Growing like a w**d on the wrong side of the tracks [01:34.88]How could anyone not love a girl like that [01:42.38] [01:44.63]One afternoon in the middle of town [01:47.38]I saw her daddy sleeping on a bench [01:51.84]So I walked up and introduced myself [01:53.96]And said his daughter was my best friend [01:57.21]He looked at me like he didn't care [02:00.15]And asked me for a couple of bucks [02:03.34]Right then I decided that I'd look after [02:06.46]That pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk [02:10.59] [02:13.02]Broken like a bottle [02:14.90]Running from the only home she ever had [02:20.21]Tangled in the talk behind her back [02:25.40]Yeah he thought she was nothing [02:28.17]Growing like a w**d on the wrong side of the tracks [02:34.92]How could anyone not love a girl like that girl like that [02:45.10] [02:51.14]Broken like a bottle [02:53.71]Running from the only home she ever had [02:58.08]Tangled in the talk behind her back [03:03.21]Yeah he thought she was nothing [03:06.14]Growing like a w**d on the wrong side of the tracks [03:12.83]How could anyone not love a girl like that girl like that [03:25.08] [03:28.83]Several years later I read in the paper [03:31.58]That her daddy had passed away [03:34.96]I was holding her hand she had the baby in the other [03:37.95]And there was really nothing I could say [03:41.27]She looked at me and I gave her a kiss [03:44.21]All that mattered was the three of us [03:47.70]Nobody thought it would all work out [03:50.45]For that pretty little girl [03:53.45]Whose daddy was the town drunk