MODERN FOLK

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MAN FROM OVERSEAS:

A MAN CAME FROM OVERSEAS AND FOUND A JOB AT A LOCAL FACTORY. THIS IS WHERE I WORK. I BEEN THERE FOR MANY YEARS. LEARNED ALL THERE WAS TO LEARN AND MOVED UP YEAR AFTER YEAR. I TAUGHT HIM ALL I KNEW, SO HE COULD GET A RAISE. HE WORKED VERY HARD AND DID SOMETHING EVERY NIGHT HE WOULD NOT SAY.

CHORUS: HE WAS A MAN FROM OVERSEAS. I THOUGHT I KNEW. HE WAS A MAN FROM OVERSEAS . A MAN WHO WAS TRUE.

I FELT HE KNEW TOO MUCH AND I DID NOT KNOW ENOUGH. COULD HE TAKE MY JOB I ALWAYS ASKED MYSELF. SO BEFORE THAT DAY COULD COME I TIGHTEN UP MY SECURITY. I GAVE HIM A QUICK STARE AS THE BOSS TOLD HIM TO LEAVE EARLY,

REPEAT CHORUS:

THE YEARS WENT BY, I REGRET WHAT I DID TO THAT MAN. I GUESS I WAS SCARED, IGNORANT AND UNSKILLED. I WENT TO THE AMUSEMENT PARK WITH MY GRANDDAUGHTER. THE LAST THING I REMEMBER EVERYTHING WENT BLACK. IT FELT LIKE A KNIFE WENT THROUGH MY CHEST AND THEN THROUGH MY BACK. A DOCTOR WAS HANGING OVER ME AND SAID DO YOU REMEMBER ME. I’M THE MAN FROM OVERSEAS AND
NOW I’M GOING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE.

CHORUS: HE WAS A MAN FROM OVERSEAS. A MAN I THOUGHT I KNEW. HE WAS A MAN FROM OVERSEAS A MAN WHO WAS TRUE. HE WAS A MAN FROM OVERSEAS A MAN I THOUGHT I KNEW.

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