Adrian Carr - A Good Man Cifras

[Verse]
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My Girlfriends Life was normal enough
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But for her father Who was rarely with us
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A real estate man for a big firm by day
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He was off valuing a city twelve hundred miles away
 
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He’d come home each weekend for their big Sunday lunch
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As the months went on he’d make every other one.
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We'd still gather at the table And turned a blind eye
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at least he made the special occasions. Well, every other one he’d try
 
[Chorus]
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They lived pretty well, he always got paid
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But he spent his time Twelve hundred miles away
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I was impressed by his plan. I thought he was a good man
 
[Verse 2]
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With care and grace his wife held no fear
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she loved him you see. Sweethearts for 45 years
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Then she got a letter from the Premier saying please vote for me
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She called the electoral office, to ask why didn’t he.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
They said
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He may have fed you and given you pay
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That's not the address of the man that you say
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This says he lives 12 miles away
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She's hit by a tram I thought he was a good man
 
[Verse 3]
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She wrote down the address put on her best Sunday blouse
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Applied her make up and sat quietly for hours
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Got into the car he had bought with his pay
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and drove to a house 12 miles that day
 
[Bridge]
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she pulled up at forty two with strength you'd commend
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rechecked her lipstick, the car door she opened
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Past a his silver BM and the tricycle up the stairs
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Took a breath to confront what she must have known
for years
 
[Chorus]
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And he didn’t make it Christmas day
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He might as well have been 12 hundred miles away
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Been waiting at home so patiently
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A woman answered the door It was his secretary
 
[Verse 3]
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It's been 24 years since she found out that day
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It all came back to me when last week she passed away
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The church was filled to the brim with people who cared
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I looked out for him he wasn't there
 
[Chorus]
Not a cent since that day
He'd moved his new family 12 hundred miles away
 
She wasn't part of his plan
I thought he was a good man
I thought he was a good man
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