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Artist: Ben Nichols
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The Kid
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The Kid
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Your mother died the night you were born
Her name you never knew
Look away
Look away
Nothing to loose
Left east tenneessee at fourteen
Wondered to the west
Look away
Look away
Born into death
You fought the sailors in New Orleans
You worked the flat boats and walked the streets
Hit nachdogdes in '49
And there you saw the devil for the very first time
Kid don't you know me
We are the last of the true
Drink up drink up
Drink up drink up
Cause tonight your soul required of you
Signed on with a stone mad captain rode on mexico
Look away
Look away
War behold
Jailed with killers one and all but we were killers free
Look away
Look away
Look to me
You saw the lancers 'mid heathen hordes
Bloodstained veils
And costumes of war
Hell ain't half full boy hear me
War is the game and the god we seek
Kid don't you know me
We are the last of the true
Drink up drink up
Drink up drink up
Cause tonight your soul required of you
We set out as men of reason armed with navy colts
Look away
Look away
Work paid in gold
But you stood witness to yourself our trial you did betray
Look away
Look away
To judgement day
We killed in the desert we killed in the streets
You show what shall and shall not be
We stood with pistols fought back to back
Now you've stood your ground but what ground is that
Kid don't you know me
We are the last of the true
Drink up drink up
Drink up drink up
Cause tonight your soul required of you
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