Fortunate One
Background
This one’s subtitled “The Upwardly Mobile Middle Class White Guy Blues”. Every group with a couple of middle-aged white guys needs one of these. It’s in the contract.
—darby
Lyrics
I came up both sides of the track
Been so poor I never wanna go back
Got damned lucky and I got away
Fortunate one or so they say
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Fortunate One
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Fortunate One
Born in a trailer in a factory town
Roots ain't grown in that kinda ground
Spent my life movin even if I's standin still
Fortunate one, or at least until
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Fortunate One
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Fortunate One
Lived a life away from all that mess
Got me a family, a job with stress
Now the end's comin closer than the start
Fortunate One, until I part
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Fortunate One
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Fortunate One