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I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
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Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
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And the preacher said, "You know you always have the
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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 Thank you Jesus, thank you lord
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I had an arrangement to meet a girl, and I was kind of late
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And I thought by the time I got there she'd be off
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She'd be off with the nearest truck driver she could find
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Much to my surprise, there she was sittin in the corner
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A little bleary, worse for wear and tear
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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
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And if you're downright disgusted
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And life ain't worth a dime
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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
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Ten dollars to the church of the sacred bleeding heart of Jesus
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Located somewhere in Los Angeles, California
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And next week they'd say my prayer on the radio
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And all my dreams would come true
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So I did, the next week, I got a prayer with a girl
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Well, you know what kind of eyes she got