High On A Hill
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1.I'm
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high on a hill looking over a small town I see
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trucks roll in and trucks roll out I'm
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somewhere in south west WA Never
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been here before may never be a-gain
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High________ on a
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hill It's quiet and still If you get a clear
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day You can see a long way As they leave
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town As they leave
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town High________ on a
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hill It's quiet and still If you get a clear
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day You can see a long way
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2.People have been kind I've been fed and I've been watered
I've been given a place to stay up this hill in single quarters
I'm thinking of walking down to the town but it's hard to walk up again
So I sit here with the birds watching me, watching them
3.Shadows creep on the hillside a crow flies hard to the west
Wish I could be that certain of where to go next
Big old jarrah tree is holding up the sky
His trunk's a storehouse of years gone by
4.Lights come on in the valley, good people are in their homes
Loving wives and husbands laughing at their children's jokes
I'm up here in the trees high above it all
I'm holdin' a guitar strumming a few chords
5.There's women who've passed me by and there's those I've set free
I don't know if any of 'em could've changed me
I wonder if my children know I'm alive
I wish I had 'em with me, God knows I tried
6.I'm a long way from where I was born but I'm closer to my grave
Just when I'll leave here I cannot say
I hear the distant sound of a car slowing down
I hear them speed up again as they leave town