Electric Light Orchestra - Poor Boy (The Greenwood) from the album Eldorado
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[VERSE 1]
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Me I'm just a poor boy, from across the far southland,
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And I've traveled many days to reach this place to mke my sta - and ,
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I fell in with a merry band, and drank away the hours.
[CHORUS]
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Rollin' on, I've been rollin' on,
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And my head is high, from the battle won,
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Laid down my life for the Greenwood
[VERSE 2]
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The city boys, and the country boys, they come from miles around,
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To defy their king and country, save the poor folks from the ha - and,
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Of the thieving dukes and abbotts, and the gentry of the land.
[CHORUS]
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Rollin' on, I've been rollin' on,
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And my head is high, from the battle won,
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Laid down my life for the Greenwood
[VERSE 3]
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Sweet Maid Marion, don't you do me no wrong,
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Stay on the right side, the Greenwood is your ho - ome,
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The dancing girls and the open fires, the wine that flows like water.
[CHORUS]
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Rollin' on, I've been rollin' on,
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And my head is high, from the battle won,
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Laid down my life for the Greenwood