All my life, yeah just about every night
I saw my father as a drunken stranger,

And I heard her cry just about every time
She felt his anger, and it broke her body?

Six shots exploded through the action
And I brought peace back into our home,
Would his apologies be proven
Well, I don't care and we'll never know

So I walked away thinking his debt was paid but all
I had was my mother, the shotgun and the blues

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So I walked away thinking his debt was paid but all
I had was my mother, the shotgun and the blues

But all I had was my mother, the shotgun and the blues