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  1. Something Old

From the recordings Roots and Roots

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Something Old ©
Rich man from the city, hell he must have been half past 50
Made his money changing the shape of the skyline

Young girl in her 20s waiting tables to feed her baby
While her boyfriends at home sleeping off his third job

Well by chance these two meet, when he stopped in to eat
And she caught his eye, while scraping tips of nickels and dimes

Well, the First thing he sees, there ain't no ring,
On her hand when she served him his drink.
A quick conversation, he winked and she smiled
He left a tip that could pay her rent

Something old, something new
A love borrowed will leave you blue
If love is a game, you can win brother, you can lose.

Now that boyfriend turned in his two weeks, at a third job he didn't need.
He's been saving 17 months for a little diamond and little ring.

Yes, he knew that she liked surprises, was getting tired of waiting she couldn't hide it
She's working double shifts now, or at least that's what he thinks.
See for 6 weeks, she'd been lying, she clocks out, slip on a dress and go ride in
that rich man’s fancy limousine.

Well, he’d would wine her and dine her, buy her anything,
she really thought she was livin a dream. By the end of the shift,
she'd start to think about the boy she'd loved since she was a teen.

Something old, something new
A love borrowed will leave you blue
If love is a game, you can win brother, you can lose.

Well, everybody knows, how that story goes, no money can't buy you love
You can buy her everything that her heart desires, but brother that won't be enough.

Now that young man, waits with flowers,
On his could-be bride for hours.
A little gold in his pocket and worry on his mind.

Then he sees that limo pulled up, the door opened and out stepped his love,
in a black dress he was sure he'd never seen.

Then the stranger, stepped out behind her, before he knowed it, he caught a double Shiner,
and as his lights went out, he could hear that young man say

He said I don't care where you been, or who that sonofabitch is, cause with this ring baby I will thee wed.
As the old man came to, he already knew, he’d better leave before he winds up dead.

Something old, something new
A love borrowed will leave you blue
If love is a game, you can win brother, you can lose.