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Bits And Pieces Of Life
Recorded by Cal Smith
Written by Charlie Williams

F
No one knows the old man’s name 
                                  C
But every evening as the sun goes down
   F                                                         C
He pulls a creaking wagon to the city dump a mile or so from town
    F
And he searches through the papers and the bottles
                            C
And wonders what he’ll find today


He’s collecting bits and pieces 
       G7                       C
Of the lives other people threw away

There’s a picture in a broken frame
     F              G7                C
That shows a father standing with his son

Their smiling faces testify 
     F                G7                C
That neither sees the troubled times to come 

    F
The father couldn’t understand the teenage boy 
                   C
With values of his own

And neither one would compromise 
    G7                                C
And now just like the old man they’re alone


He brushes off a crumpled dress 
       F                G7                C
That a pretty girl once wore to her first dance 
                                    F
She and the boy were planning to be married
         G7            C
But they never got the chance

     F
They buried him in Viet Nam
                                           C
And she just grieved herself to death they say

He’s collecting bits and pieces 
       G7                            C
Of the lives that other people threw away
 

He kicks aside the cans 
          F                G7                  C
And finds record two young lovers called their song
                                 F
And a crucifix a mother gave her daughter
     G7                    C
Back before the world went wrong
    F
The old man slowly turns to go 
                                    C
The walk today was hardly worth his time 
  
It’s just a bunch of junk he says
                G7                          C
For there ain’t nothing here that’s worth a dime

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