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Artist: Stan Ridgway
Canonical path: /ridgway-stan/call-of-the-west
Related lyric paths: 6
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Call of the west
Read Call of the west lyrics by Stan Ridgway on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Call of the west
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He got the high sign so he jumped a bus
Along the roads that wind on through
The hot Mojave and the Jericho
He'd start his whole life anew
And what he left behind he hadn't valued
Half as much as some things
He never knew
Right around sundown...
He got dropped off on a street in town
Where a grey old man looked him up and down and said
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