JUST LIKE YOU
(Peter Wernick)

Hot Rize - 1987


Hector Brown, he lives on a farm
Been a farmer all his life 
Till he had to slow down, his heart broke down 
He went under a surgeon's knife 
And the four kids that he raised 
They all live so far from home 
And 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 

Ethel Kline, she lives in the city 
The landlord lives out of town 
When the cold wind blows, it chills her 
Her backache gets her down 
So she reads by day, sleeps by night 
She never goes nowhere 
And scarcely anybody 
Even know's 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 so 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 can be alone and blue 
Let me tell you my friend 
You've got some thinking to do 

And if you don't think an old man 
Can be alone and blue 
Let me tell you my friend 
He's just like you


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2005)