Lyrics:

She said, I watch him walk down Main Street A sweet one man parade.
Hed tip his hat and just like that another score hed made
Id watch the girls all watch him; moths drawn to the flame.
The money showed, the laughter flowed from the way he played the game.
He played the game.

Some said he was a rambler, some said he was a rake .
Some said he was a gambler, some said he was a fake.
But I knew him like no one else, a gentleman was he.
His days belonged to himself, his nights belonged to me.
Belonged to me.

And theyre talkin in the town square,
In the taverns and the shops
I hear them talkin everywhere.
Their talkin never stops.
But all their words of wisdom wont make you go away.
The day they closed the factory down they had nothing,
Nothing left to say.

She said, I take care of my momma now, since my father died.
Im raising baby brother, too, the way my father tried.
His thirty years in the factory ended in that furnace blast.
But they settled up for ten bucks a week and the bitterness is past,
It did not last.

So theyre moving somewhere else now
With their cloths and fabric press. They found themselves another town where theyll make shirts for less.
And that is why he said last night he wont watch the old town die.
But I would not take what he tried to leave, when he told me Good bye
Ah, its good bye

And theyre talkin in the town square,
In the taverns and the shops.
I hear them talkin everywhere.
Their talkin never stops.
But all their words of wisdom wont make you go away.

The day they closed the factory down they had nothing,
Nothing left to say
So theyre talkin of the changes the closing brings about.
Talkin of the hard times and the young folks moving out.
Yes, theyre talking as if talking can make everything all right.
But all the talking ever done wont bring him back tonight.
Ah, tonight.

And theyre talkin talkin talkin talkin
Talkin in the shops
I hear them talkin everywhere.
Their talkin never stops.
But all their words of wisdom wont make you go away.
The day they closed the factory down they had nothing
Nothing left to say.