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Worthless Tab

by Van Dyke Parks



From the movie, Brave Little Toaster

Intro

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I can't take this kinda pressure
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I must confess one more dusty road
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Would be just a road too long

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Worthless...


I just can't, I just can't
I just can't seem to get started!
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Don't have the heart to live in the fast lane
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All that has passed and gone

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Worthless!
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There ain't nothing you can do about it
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Worthless!
Pardon me while I panic!
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Worthless! Worthless! Worthless!


I come from KC Missouri
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And I got my kicks down on Route 66
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Every truck stop from Butte to MO

Motown to Old Alabama
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From Texarkana and east of Savanna from Tampa to Old Kokomo

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Worthless...


I once ran the Indy 500
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I must confess I'm impressed how I did
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And I wonder how close that I came

Now I get a sinking sensation
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I was the top of the line, out of site out of mind
                        
So much for fortune and fame

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Worthless!
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Worthless!
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Worthless! Worthless! Worthless!



Once took a Texan to a wedding
Once took a Texan to a wedding
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He kept forgetting, his loneliness letting
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His thoughts turn to home and we turned


I took a man to a graveyard
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I beg your pardon, it's quite hard enough
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Just living with the stuff I have learned

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Worthless!
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Worthless!
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Worthless! Worthless! Worthless!


Once drove a surfer to sunset
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There were bikinis and buns filled with weenies
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Believe me, just couldn't forget

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Pico, lets go up to Zuma
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Pico, lets go up to Zuma
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From Zuma to Yuma the rumor was I had a hand in the lay of the land

Get up and go hit the highway

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I worked on a reservation
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Who would believe they would love me and leave on a bus back to old Santa Fe?


Once in an Indian nation
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I took the kids on the skids with a Hopi
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Who was happy to lie there and say
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"You're worthless"


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