Kelly Joe`s Shoes — текст песни (Tim O`Brien)

I have a friend lives up in Portland, I stayed there with him one time
He had a new a pair of high-top sneakers, didn`t fit him but they fit me fine
I laced up his Converse sneakers, we drove down the California line
After we played a little gig in Chico, he headed home, he left me behind

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Said take these shoes and be on your way
It looks like you`ve got travelin` to do
Come back and see me some other day
Tell me all about where they took you to

Now I had a lot of fun in those black Chuck Taylors
A finer shoe has never been worn
I can see where I`ve been in the color fadin`
I can what I learned where they`re frayed and worn
I walked off the tread on the concrete pavement
Of London, and Dublin, and New York town
I shook out the sand from the ocean beaches,
I left it on the floor of an airport lounge

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Today it rained at the bluegrass fester
It was squishy squashin through the fields all day
I rinsed them out in the cool lake water, I washed that mountain mud away
Now I`m sittin` in a friendly kitchen, the wind outside it howls and blows
I`ll let em dry by a cozy fire, and warm my soaked and wrinkled toes

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These are shoes that like to travel, no tellin` where they`ll take me to
They`re still not done scratchin` gravel
They still gotta show me a thing or two

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