Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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1:32:01
This lousy old suitcase!
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On the inside was nothing...
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...but his uniform
from the Spanish-American War.

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This was his legacy to me.
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Nothing at all!
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And I built this place from nothing.
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And that's all he left you?
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Yeah, he was a hobo.
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Best-known tramp on the boxcar circuit.
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He worked once in a while as a field hand.
I'd tag along.

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Sat on my bare bottom, in the dirt,
waiting for him.

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Outside of hunger...
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...first thing I could remember is shame.
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I was ashamed
of that miserable, old tramp.

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I was riding boxcars when I was nine,
something you never had to do.

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And you'll never have to bury me
like I did him.

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I buried him in a meadow,
alongside a railroad track.

1:33:00
We were running to catch a freight
and his heart gave out.

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You know something?
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That lousy old tramp died laughing.
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Laughing at what?
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Himself, I guess.
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A hobo tramp...
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...not a nickel in his jeans.
No future, no past.

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Or maybe he was laughing
because he was happy.

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Happy at having you with him.
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He took you everywhere
and he kept you with him.

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I don't want to talk about that.
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Yeah, I loved him.
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I reckon I never loved anything
as much as that...

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...lousy old tramp.

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