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I Don't Fight Anymore
James Blundell
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In a bar in Goondiwindi I found this tough old man
On his stool up at the bar black coffee shaking hands
Seamed with scar and callus from a life of long hard work
As the night wore on I ground him down on why he wouldn't drink
He said there was a woman don't it always seem that way
And he loved her more than life itself back in his younger days
That she was like a filly who had never felt the rope
Wild as the wind she'd run around and he just couldn't cope
And he said I don't fight anymore
I used to think that was the way but that was just before
I took to one young feller and I killed him with my hands
That's why I don't fight anymore
The night he found Johanna in the strong and loving arms
Of a fine young man who worked the rails and took odd jobs on farms
He'd been drinking hard before he took that young man's life
And he didn't hide he stood and cried and fell before the law
And he said I don't fight anymore
I used to think that was the way but that was just before
I took to one young feller and I killed him with my hands
That's why I don't fight anymore
And ten years on the dark side of the bars have made you think
That freedom's more than a woman or a fire or a good hard drink
So tonight I sit and toast the ghosts of things that made me drink
I can hear their laughter in the night and they never go away
And that's why I don't fight anymore
I used to think that was the way but that was just before
I took to one young feller and I killed him with my hands
That's why I don't fight anymore
He just said I don't fight anymore
I used to think that was the way but that was just before
I took to one young feller and I killed him with my hands
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I don't fight anymore
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