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Limelight

from Bootleg Sessions V by Bootleg Slim

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I'm prowlin' like the lone wolf
I'm cunning like the fox
I'll play the card dealt me
nevermind the hand you've got

I'm a young man of good fortune
there's nothing I can't throw away
I'm the cause of all my troubles
seen many a jealous day

I was born in the limelight
while a tempest darkened the sky
and if the moonshine doesn't kill me
I'll live until the day I die!

Won't you tell me, brave captain
which is the direction home
there's a woman there I love
from the very marrow of my bones

I've been locked in Bessie's gin house
for many a long year
and for those I leave behind
I don't shed a tear

I was born in the limelight...

So pull a comb through my hair
yes, I'm a-gonna turn on my toe
before I'm strapped to the electric chair
for singing Rock 'n' Roll

I'm a young man of good fortune
there's nothing I can't throw away
I'm the cause of all my troubles
seen many a jealous day

I'm prowlin' like the lone wolf
I'm cunning like the fox
I'll play the card dealt me
nevermind the hand you've got

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from Bootleg Sessions V, released September 27, 2016
Words and music by Bootleg Slim

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