One Paper Kid
Emmylou Harris
by Walter Martin Cowart
Emmylou Harris vocals/acoustic guitar
Willie Nelson duet vocals
Mickey Raphael harmonica
B G#m
Cowboys and Indians and trees he could climb
F# B
Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind
B G#m
The distance was short so light it again
E F# B
It don't take no time to get where I am
E B
But one paper kid wasn't really so mean
F# B
Just a little bit scared and a little bit green
E F# G#m E
And he'd heard of a place it where it was legal to dream
B G#m
So he sat with his coffee in a blue Texas wind
E
And he wrote on a rock
G#m F# B G#m E F#
The one paper kid he's rollin' again
B G#m
Driver was drunk or he just didn't see
F# B
The future is there it'll happen to me
B G#m
And all the time that he wasted was his once again
E F# B
It never takes too long to go where you've been
G#m F#
Broken hearts scatered all over the past
E B
Old bad memories trying to last
G#m F# E
Whiskey and women and growing up fast
F#
Fussing and loving and itching like grass
B G#m
Hell that one paper kid wasn't really so mean
F# B
Just a little bit weird cause times were so lean
E F# G#m E
Now he's gone to a place where it's legal to dream
B G#m
No camels no coffee no cold morning winds
E
It was wrote on a rock
G#m F# B B G#m E F#
The one paper kid is rollin' again.
G#m F# B
The one paper kid is rollin' again.
From Emmylou Harris "Quarter Moon In A Ten Cent Town"
Warner Brothers Records 1978
Martin Cowart Music
source: Rick
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