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The Continuing Saga Of The Classic Bummer or
Is This My One-Way Bus Ticket To Cleveland?
By Jerry Jeff Walker

I guess it all started, the day my brand new car wouldn't
I took it to this dealer recommended as a good 'un
He told me 400 bucks would fix it
I asked him 'bout the guarantee
He just smiled as he told me, 
"Slim, it ran out last week"

Chorus:
I been takin' again, I been takin' again
It's like singing the blues, if you snooze you lose
You'll be taken again

I drove to this bar, outside of Colorado Springs
Gonna drink a case of cold Coors
Hear old Merle Haggard sing
They had this antlered rabbit on the wall
Spiked horns and ears a foot tall
The bartender told me it was a Colorado jackalope

Chorus:
I been takin' again, takin' again
It's like singing the blues, you snooze and you lose
You'll get taken again

Well later I took home, this old nymphomaniac
But I could not get her, to lie upon her back
She told something in my eyes had made her realize
She could never do that lustful thing with me

Chorus:
I been takin' again, takin' again
It's like singing the blues, if you snooze and you lose
You'll get taken again

Now people buy the records, think we're working so hard
We're out in the studios and it's 5:00
They're hanging on every word, waiting on the very next verse
Think things are getting better from here
But I think they're getting worse

Chorus:
Takin' again, takin' again
It's like singing the blues, if you snooze and you lose
You'll get taken again

Thank God you don't have to hear, the take after this