2.99¢ Blues lyrics

Somewhere far away

Where I roam

There live my buffalo twin

In our twin buffalo home sweet home

He take good care of my native son

And he call me by my native name

And he, he even lets us drink spring water on Sundays

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And somewhere further down the road

Where I also roam

There live my caterpillar cousin

Beneath a fancy engraved tomb head stone

In the middle of a southern town

Beneath a cemetery burial plot

And he, he don't pay rent no more, no more

But he sure likes the spot, sure likes the spot

Oh, he sure likes the spot, sure likes the spot

Oh, he sure likes the spot, sure likes the spot

But in the furthest place I've ever known

Where even I so rarely roam

There lives a boy who just come back from war

His flesh was wounded but he made it back home

His mother calls him by his given name

And the neighbors whisper how he prefers to be alone

And he gets, he gets nightmares about boys dripping blood

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But when I get me all real tired

And I got no more strength to roam

I catch me a horse driven carriage ride

From a local man named Ethan Frome

He don't say much as he tips his hat

And he carries his body as heavy as lead

And he could have been flying through the snow on his sled

But the wife was in bed and the horses had to be fed

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• Artist:Regina Spektor