Jack Ingram - Elmo Lincoln guitar chord

Elmo Lincoln

By Jack Ingram

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Elmo Lincoln was a friend of mine

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We used to throw papers every weekday afternoon

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He was makin’ some dough saving up for a bike

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I was layin low I was killin time on those weekday afternoons

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Well, our hands got black but we never got tired

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Till one day I quit and Elmo got fired

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We were free every weekday afternoon

We rode that bike that he’d worked for all year

Go down to the corner store, too young to want beer

But we’d buy some baseball cards, I’d give him my gum

Cause the shit was too hard and I didn’t want none

It would always get dark and I’d make an excuse

Thinking he’d buy it But it was no use

the sun never set down for Elmo Lincoln

Not For Elmo Lincoln

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I’ll never forget when old Elmo got stuck

Stealing caps from a kid he ran out of luck

We laughed at his nose but nobody had died

Just a little lost blood and a bit of bruised pride

You’d think he would quit but Elmo kept on

Just pissed his collection was gone

I guess I never really knew Elmo Lincoln

Elmo Lincoln, Elmo Lincoln, Elmo Lincoln

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Well, I’ll never let go the day I awoke from a call from a friend

It’d been years since we spoke

Elmo had been killed – run down in the night

By a train without end, a train without light

You think I would cry but never I did

Couldn’t help but smile just thinkin’ of that kid

That I used to run with – Elmo Lincoln