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So I cooperate.
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And then they come up
with a nice big depression, a fat one.
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But I fooled them, I went out and got a job.
Six years later.
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14 dollars a week,
I collected exactly two pay cheques
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and then they come up with a war.
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"Greetings, my boy.
You too can be a private."
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Don't laugh, it was serious.
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This was my big chance.
I was ready to be a hero, a dead one even.
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You know, lots of crowds, bands playing,
me in a flag-draped coffin.
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Ha! Did I get it?
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No.
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All they figured for me
was a little grape juice in the leg.
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Not quite enough to be a hero.
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Lots of guys got shot
so it'd just hurt a little bit.
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Eight or nine years later,
your leg gets a little stiff when it rains.
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That's my good leg, my pedal foot,
that I play the piano with.
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There's more. You wanna hear more?
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Yes. Yes, I do.
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If you tell the whole story.
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What about the talent they gave you?
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Sure.
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Sure, they said, "Let him have a little talent.
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"Not enough to do anything great on his own
but just enough to help other people.
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"That's what he deserves."
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Mix a little talent with the rest of that stuff
and you get stumblebum Barney Sloan.
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- Barney Sloan...
- Mm-hm.
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That's my new name.
:44:41
One I was born with was a little more Italian.
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I changed it.
Figured I'd throw 'em off the track.
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Not those babies.
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You know you're taking the easiest way out.
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- How do you figure?
- Anybody can feel sorry for himself.