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Hector Brown he lives on a farm
he’s been a farmer all his life
until he had to slow down
when his heart broke down
he went under a surgeon’s knive
then the four kids that he raised
all lived so far from home
since his wife died last December
Hector’s all alone

and if you don’t think an old man
could be alone and blue
let me tell you my friend
he’s just like you

Ethyl Cline she lives in a city
and her landlord he lives out of town
when the cold wind blows it chills her
her backache gets her down
so she reads by day
and she sleeps by night
she never goes nowhere
and scarcely anybody
even knows she’s there

and if you don’t think that woman
could be alone and blue
let me tell you my friend
she’s just like you

well I know it’s not too long ago
you were only twenty-one
but time moves only one way
you won’t always be young
and if you don’t think when you get old
you could be alone and blue
let me tell you my friend
you got some thinkin’ to do

and if you don’t think an old man
could be alone and blue
let me tell you my friend
he’s just like you