^{Copyright 1997 Snakes Alive Publishing (BMI)}

Tommy’s Song

I remember old Tommy
You know he fought in World Was One
Said he’d been through three depressions
Didn’t like any of them
You know he fought with the black troops over there in France
Back in the days when we kept the white boys from the blacks
And you know what he told me
This is what he said:

Chorus:
Well, I know people change
Yeah, I know people change
I’ve seen giants fall
I’ve seen losers win it all
Yeah, you know, I know people change

Well, I used to live upstairs in this old house
Tommy he lived down
That was back in Colorado Springs
That’s back in my home town
Sometimes he’d come out on the porch and smoke a cigarette
And I’d go down and visit, we’d just shoot the shit
And this is what he told me
This is what Tommy said:

You know it’s lonely when you get old
And your wife’s been dead for so long
You know I live on borrowed time
And the children never come
Ain’t nothin’ surprise me no more, cause,

Chorus

Yeah, maybe one of these days
My boy’ll come down from Denver
We go fishin’, you know
My wife, I sure do miss her
Ain’t got the vaguest idea how I ever outlived her

‘Cause I used to drink a bit and get in trouble
Kind of like you did the other night
Yeah, I heard ya
She made me stop that nonsense fast
And now I’m living on borrowed time