Let Him Roll Full Lyrics
[00:13.81] Let him roll, boys, let him roll
[00:20.75] I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his soul
[00:27.90] Now he was a wino, tried and true
[00:31.64] Done about everything there is to do
[00:34.73] He worked on freighters, he worked in bars
[00:37.88] He worked on farms, and he worked on cars
[00:42.61] Now it was white port whine, that put that look in his eye
[00:46.24] That grown men get when they need to cry
[00:49.62] And we sat down on the curb to rest
[00:53.13] And his head just fell down on his chest
[00:57.52] He said, "Every single day it gets
[01:01.24] Just a little bit harder to handle and yet..."
[01:04.98] Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered
[01:08.10] The words just rolled off down the gutter
[01:12.98] He was a elevator man in a cheap hotel
[01:16.38] In exchange for the rent on a one room cell
[01:19.86] And he's years old before his time
[01:23.14] No thanks to the world, and the white port wine
[01:27.90] So he said, "Son", he always called me son
[01:31.14] He said, "Life for you has just begun"
[01:34.72] And then he told me the story that I heard before
[01:38.39] How he fell in love with a Dallas whore
[01:43.16] He could cut through the years to the very night
[01:46.83] That it all ended in a whore house fight
[01:50.13] And she turned his last proposal down
[01:53.54] In favor of being a girl about town
[01:58.28] Now it's been 17 years right in line
[02:01.65] And he ain't been straight none of the time
[02:05.29] It's too many years of fightin' the weather
[02:08.84] And too many nights of not being together
[02:12.74] So he died
[02:16.40] Let him roll, boys, let him roll
[02:23.49] I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his soul
[02:29.75] Let him roll, boys, let him roll
[02:37.05] He always thought that Heaven
[02:40.61] Was just a Dallas whore
[02:45.73] When they went through his personal affects
[02:49.06] In among the stubs from the welfare checks
[02:52.25] Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
[02:55.75] An address in Dallas, and nothin' more
[03:00.51] Well, the welfare people provided the priest
[03:04.16] And a couple from the mission down the street
[03:06.81] Sang Amazing Grace, and nobody cried
[03:10.59] 'Cept some lady in black way off to the side
[03:15.97] We all left and she's standin' there
[03:18.99] The black veil coverin' her silver hair
[03:22.07] And ole one-eyed John said her name was Alice
[03:26.02] She used to be a whore in Dallas
[03:30.03] Let him roll (let him roll), boys, let him roll
[03:37.38] I bet he's gone to Dallas, rest his soul
[03:43.36] Let him roll (let him roll), boys, let him roll
[03:50.84] He always thought that Heaven
[03:54.36] Was just a Dallas whore
[03:56.92] Let him roll, boys, let him roll
[04:10.36] Let him roll, boys, let him-
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