Biography:
Sammy Walker (born in 1952 near Atlanta, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter. Influenced by the folk and country sounds of Bob Dylan, Woodie Guthrie and Hank Williams, Walker emerged in the mid 1970s with two albums for the Folkways label and two albums for Warner Brothers. While appearing on Bob Fass's radio show in 1975, he caught the ear of Phil Ochs, who was impressed by the young songwriter and agreed to produce his first album with Folkways.
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I'll be dead within a year
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From the testimony heard
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I'll be dead within a year
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From the testimony heard
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My husband passed away no more than a year ago
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But every penny that he left me to the banker we did owe
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When I first was feelin' ill, they said I'd be okay
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But they'd need to run some tests and take a simple X-ray
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Just a simple X-ray
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Again and again they called me, for more tests they'd need to run
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And to exterminate the cancer with their radiation gun
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With their radiation gun
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But I never got no better as I'm standing here today
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And they left me with this statement that I can't afford to pay
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That I can't afford to pay
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Well what about your jewellery and your lovely house and home?
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Could you not have made a sacrifice, to step down from your throne?
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To step down from your throne
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Sir, I never had the fancy things that you and yours have known
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And we never owned the shackled house I used to call my home
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I used to call my home
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Well I'm sorry for your trouble, and I'm sorry that you're ill
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But it's my duty to uphold the law, an' uphold the law I will
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Uphold the law I will
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For your failure to meet the judgement of this court and pay the fee
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I sentence you to twelve months in the penitentiary
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In the penitentiary
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In this system of justice, of opportunity, and grief
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It's one thing to make a living, another to be a thief
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Another to be a thief
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