Portrait Of A Legend Lyrics - Farmer's Boys

I sure am... 

The tenderness of love's embrace 

Can sometimes leave a lonely taste 

Bobby Joe is jumping on a Western Union train 

The sun is high but Bobby's low 

His bags were packed so long ago 

He's just a shadow of a man with nothing left to lose 

So gather round and I will tell a story sad and true 

About a man called Bobby Joe 

A man that I once knew 

I told you how he acted tough 

Played the fool and lost his love 

While he was a-jumping on that Western Union train 

Woo Woo 

Woo Woo 

Without a home or family 

In a travelling theatre company 

I still recall that sunny day the circus came to town 

The whole town came to see the show 

Folks all laughed at Bobby Joe 

He tried to be an acrobat but always played the clown 

He met a girl called Mary Lou I saw them hand in hand 

Her father was the sheriff though and didn't understand 

And then the circus had to leave 

And Bobby said please wait for me 

I'll come back with some money and we'll buy a plot of land 

Now circus life does not pay much 

And Bobby lost his gambling touch 

The promises to Mary Lou still echoed in his head 

He robbed and stole in every town 

They never did suspect the clown 

Until one day he went too far and left a man for dead 

But in his hideout in the woods he thought of Mary Lou 

And in his mind he made a plan of things he had to do 

He got to see her right away 

So many things he got to say 

The need to know if she could ever love a wanted man 

That night he rode to Mary's place 

He hoped to see a friendly face 

But Sheriff Graves was waiting with a gun and several men 

They all took aim but no-one knew 

That at that moment Mary Lou 

Would come out of the shadows and run to her Bobby's arms 

But Mary never got there as a single shot was fired 

A bullet meant for Bobby meant that Mary's life expired 

But through his grief he fired his gun 

Until he was the only one alive with just a memory 

Now bloodstained with revenge 

So gather round and I will tell a story sad and true 

About a man called Bobby Joe 

A man that I once knew 

The tenderness of love's embrace 

Can sometimes leave a lonely taste 

Bobby Joe is jumping on a Western Union train 

Woo Woo 

Woo Woo 

Woo Woo 

Woo Woo