Abalone Sky-Banjo Man - Magna Carta

He came down from Oregon,

times were lean and hard

but he kept his guard like a junkyard dog

the sky was full of winter snow

and the old men stood and watched him go,

moving down the sidewalk in the cold

moving down the sidewalk in the cold

he was tall and kind of handsome, in a

Gary Cooper way with his

mackinaw and his hat pulled low down he

walked into a nightspot and began to play they

said they’d never heard his kind before they

said they’d never heard his kind before

he wasn’t born a shooting star it was never in the plan

but he could steal your heart away

and they called him the Banjoman

they called him the Banjoman

but it wasn’t always easy

you win sometimes you lose

and the crowd who called him axe, to cut him down

worked the stages of the world,

God knows he paid his dues

and the whiskey days and the darker sides of town

whiskey days and the darker sides of town

whiskey days and the darker sides of town

I met him south of Antwerp, on a stormy night in June

it was everybod’s heros, and the past,

there was a lady of a lifetime, checking out he was ok

and we sang a song together in the rain

sang a song together in the rain

He wasn’t born a shooting star it was never in the plan

but he could steal your heart away

and they called him the Banjoman

they called him the Banjoman