JJ Cale: Downtown LA

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Downtown L.A. is a de
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pressing place

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ee young men with deep lines in 
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their face

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somebody cared

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obody knows they're even 
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down there

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Old woman walking with 
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a sack on her back

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Picking up the garbage people 
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put out back

Men down there trying to walk Ami 
the line

Trading their soul for a D 
bottle of wine
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In the inner city it ain't D 
no good

It's a long, long way from HollyAmi 
wood

Bad kind of people G 
got a hold of the street

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They got something that the poor people need
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At two in the morning they Bmi 
bust your 
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head

Fat D 
chance walking 
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you'll end up dead

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It' the law of the jungle with a gun and a 
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knife
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Man down there he couldn't be lying  

He was D 
sleeping in the street and he couldn't keep from crying  

Said he'd been there for G 
twenty one years

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Through the bars and the brawls and the blues and the 
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tears

Prop up the Bmi 
front the 
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back falls down

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All around the canyons of L.A. town

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When he asked me for a 
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dollar I looked 
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him in his face

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Downtown L.A. is a depressing place
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