Simon got drafter spent a few years in the service.
Left home a boy, came back a troubled young man.
Now he walks with a limp, he stutters a bit when he's nervous.
But if you ask Simon he'll say it's just part of God's plan.
Going out to find me a new song to sing, shake off these sleepy town blues.
We laugh and well drink til we cant feel a thing
As we cling to the world by the soles of our shoes.
Ruby worked nights at a bar in the old dixie highway.
Her husband ran of with a jewley store clerk half his age.
Desperate one night she got drunk she jumped off the skyway.
Her body washed up in the harbor the very next day
Going out to buy this old town a new name, a name everybody can use.
So ill buy a round and you do the same
As we cling to this world by the soles of our shoes.
