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          I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
          Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station and the preacher said,
             "You know you always have the Lord by your side"
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          And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
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              twenty red lights in his honor
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          Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord

          I had an arrangement to meet a girl, and I was kind of late
          And I thought by the time I got there she'd be off
              she'd be off with the nearest truck driver she could find
          Much to my surprise, there she was sittin in the corner
              a little bleary, worse for wear and tear
          Was a girl with far away eyes

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                          So if you're down on your luck
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                          And you can't harmonize
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                          Find a girl with far away eyes

                          And if you're downright disgusted
                          And life ain't worth a damn
                          Get a girl with far away eyes
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          Well, the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send
             ten dollars to the church of the sacred bleeding heart
          Of Jesus located somewhere in Los Angeles, California
             and next week they'd say my prayer on the radio
                and all my dreams would come true
          So I did, the next week, I got a prayer, and the girl
          Well, you know what kind of eyes she got

                          So if you're down on your luck
                          And you can't harmonize
                          Find a girl with far away eyes

                          And if you're downright disgusted
                          And life ain't worth a damn
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                          Get a girl with far away eyes...