Sad Eyed Joe - Mungo Jerry

Let me tell you about a story, about a man named Joe

His family they was hungry, so he said I’m gonna go Go up in the mountains, start looking for some gold

So he started out one morning, the wind was getting cold

The air was nearly freezing, it was ten degrees below

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Sad eyed Joe, why did you go,

Your family’s gonna miss you, they want you back at home

Think about the winter, think about the snow

Think about the things that you’re gonna leave behind

When your looking for the gold dust that you’re never gonna find

He wakes up every morning, after only five hours sleep

Chewing on a tasteless piece of gristly worn out meat

His coffee runout weeks ago he won’t admit defeat

Panning on the water searching with his hands

Looking for the yellow dust but all he find is sand

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They searched fro him every day for one whole solid week

They found him lying frozen at the bottom of the creek

A bag of yellow gold dust between his icy feet

His collar it was turned up frozen to his jaw

Sad eyed Joe looked sadder than he ever looked before

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