Lyrics The Great Compromise.lrc John Prine
[id: pshllxut]
[ar: John Prine]
[al: The John Prine Anthology: Great Days (Disc 1)]
[ti: The Great Compromise]
[length: 04:57]
[00:09.84]I knew a girl who was almost a lady
[00:14.88]She had a way with all the men in her life
[00:20.35]Every inch of her blossomed in beauty
[00:25.24]She was born on the fourth of July
[00:32.89]Well, she lived in an aluminum house trailer
[00:37.70]And she worked in a juke box saloon
[00:43.15]And she spent all the money that I gave her
[00:48.14]Just to see the old man in the moon
[00:53.11]I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory
[00:58.33]And awake in the dawn’s early light
[01:03.36]But much to my surprise
[01:05.75]When I opened my eyes
[01:08.65]I was a victim of the great compromise
[01:19.40]Well, we’d go out on Saturday evenings
[01:24.56]To the drive-in on Route 41
[01:29.40]And it was there that I first suspected
[01:34.59]That she was doin’ what she’d already done
[01:42.36]She said, “Johnny won’t you get me some popcorn?”
[01:47.78]And she knew I had to walk pretty far
[01:52.77]And as soon as I passed through the moonlight
[01:57.42]She hopped into a foreign sports car
[02:03.02]I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory
[02:08.37]And awake in the dawn’s early light
[02:13.26]But much to my surprise
[02:15.74]When I opened my eyes
[02:18.36]I was a victim of the great compromise
[02:22.70]
[02:31.71]Well, you know I could have beat up that fellow
[02:36.76]But it was her that had hopped into his car
[02:42.08]Many times I’d fought to protect her
[02:47.26]But this time she was goin’ too far
[02:55.05]Now some folks they call me a coward
[03:00.23]’Cause I left her at the drive-in that night
[03:05.24]But I’d druther have names thrown at me
[03:10.30]Than to fight for a thing that ain’t right
[03:15.78]I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory
[03:20.84]And awake in the dawn’s early light
[03:25.79]But much to my surprise
[03:28.23]When I opened my eyes
[03:30.88]I was a victim of the great compromise
[03:44.01]Then she writes all the fellows love letters
[03:49.26]Saying, “Greetings, come and see me real soon”
[03:54.75]And they go and line up in the barroom
[03:59.66]Spend the night in that sick woman’s room
[04:07.62]But sometimes I get awful lonesome
[04:12.65]And I wish she was my girl instead
[04:18.03]But she won’t let me live with her
[04:23.12]And she makes me live in my head
[04:28.24]I used to sleep at the foot of Old Glory
[04:33.30]And awake in the dawn’s early light
[04:38.40]But much to my surprise
[04:41.01]When I opened my eyes
[04:43.82]I was a victim of the great compromise
[04:49.53]Year of Release: 2011