Doesn't Anybody Know My Name
Recorded by Waylon Jennings
Written by Rod McKuen
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I've been away for so long
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Fought a war that's come and gone
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Doesn't anybody know my name
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My sister upped and wed
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Momma's sick and took to bed
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And my old dog Red's gone lame
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Please tell me if you can
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What time the trains roll in
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Two ten six eighteen ten forty four
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The old house is falling down
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There ain't no need in me hanging round
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Doesn't anybody know my name
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The girl I left behind
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She's gone with this friend of mine
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I don't have to see a sign to know things ain't the same
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You can't get far away
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On just a soldier's pay
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Doesn't anybody know my name
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Used to be when I could see
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Everybody wanted me
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Guess nobody cares to see a blind man catch a train
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