Crowd Around the Corner Song Lyrics and Chords by Earl Thomas Conley
Crowd Around the Corner
Written and Recorded by Earl Thomas Conley
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stormy years leave
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deep and endless
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Trails across his
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face
He'll wander back when
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morning rolls
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around
For it's an
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old man's right to
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spend his life
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searching for a
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place
Where he can sit and
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watch the sun go
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down
Time's
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run its course and
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freed the horse
That
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pulled him through his
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prime
And placed a different
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light above his
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brow
Now
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towering rows of
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buildings
grow
In
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fields he left be
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hind
And life seems twice as
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heavy as a
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plow
So
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crowd around the corner boys
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take your good old time
And pass along a piece of yester
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day
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tender breeze of
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memories
Is
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blowing through your
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mind
Softer than those
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strands of silver-
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gray
The
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golden chain the old
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men
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To the
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watch inside their
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vest
That tells them when it's
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time to move
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along
Just
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rambling through the
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avenues
They'll
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sometimes stop to
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rest
But it's hard to find a
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place where they
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belong
So
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crowd around the corner boys
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take your good old time
And pass along a piece of yester
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day
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tender breeze of
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memories
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blowing through your
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mind
Softer than those
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strands of silver-
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gray
And sweeter than the
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things we've seen
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today
FAQ
Who sang the the song Crowd Around the Corner?
- The song Crowd Around the Corner was sang by Earl Thomas Conley.
Who is Earl Thomas Conley?
- Earl Thomas Conley (October 17, 1941 - April 10, 2019) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for RCA Records. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, of which eighteen reached Number One. His eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade, excluding Alabama and Ronnie Milsap.
