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Leadville
Steve Dawson (6)
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Leadville once was a big time boom town
Now it's two stoplights, six churches and a jail
At night all the hometown boys get wasted
Race their trucks up and down a dirt hill
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Zeppelin and Skynyrd blasting out distorted
From a Tandy speaker in a pickup truck
Standing 'round a bonfire, no one saying nothing
'Til a fight broke out or the sheriff showed up
I was up before daylight to catch a school bus
That took me twenty-five miles to another town
The bus driver was a stone cold racist
Who didn't like the way the Civil War turned out
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The school was ruled by a Christian warrior
Whose fits of rage were serious
A little too handsy with the freshman girls
As he warned about the rapture and the wrath of Jesus
I got my first job when I was fourteen
Washing dishes in a kitchen full of raging men
Their endless bragging about pussy and cocaine
Made me promise myself I wouldn't turn out like them
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I had a crush on a girl who lived in a trailer
I hung with her family one Fourth of July
Her brother was as stupid as a sack full of doorknobs
We ran and got the hose when he set himself on fire
Leadville once was a big time boom town
Now it's two stoplights, six churches and a jail
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