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Brock Zeman
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Gastown
I was wandering around Vancouver not knowing what I was about to find Had a room at the Cambie hostel and I was just killing some time When I heard this lonesome sound coming from down the street There was an old man picking a guitar with a case opened at his feet He had long white hair beneath an old cap and a long white beard He was picking some John Prine tune for everyone to hear I leaned up against the wall and held on to his every word Then he started playing some mining song that I'd never heard He called it Dark As a Dungeon and it was enough to make you weep When you hear it played by an old man on a street corner of Gastown on an old guitar with nylon strings A man walked by and flicked a penny which landed outside of his case And he stopped the song before it was through and said, Sir let me tell you one thing
I'm down on my luck with no roof over my head But I'm an artist not a beggar and this is the only gig I could get 更多更详尽歌词 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔镜歌词网 And as he placed the penny back in that man's hand he said, You can keep your charity And if you're still feeling giving later on go see them winos down the street That man closed his hand on his penny and his face got all red and he started walking down the street And that man with the guitar turned and said to me, Son I've never had the finer things but I'm doing all that I love That makes me as free as the rich down here and them birds flying up above Then he went back into that old mining song and he never missed a beat And the hair stood up on the back of my neck when he began to sing I took a twenty out of my pocket and dropped it in his case And he smiled at me and said, thank-you son before I could walk away And whenever I'm playing in a bar someplace where the crowd can talk louder than I can sing I just think about an old man standing on a corner in Gastown picking an old guitar with nylon strings
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