Local Hero

Eye was driving threw my hometown
Eye was just kinda killin ' thyme
When Eye scene a face staring out of a black velvet painting
From the window of the five and dime
Eye couldn't quite recall the name
Butt the pose looked familiar too mi
Sew Eye asked the salesgirl " Who was that man
Between the doberman and Bruce Lea ? "
She said " Just a local hero "
" Local hero " she said with a smile
" Yeah a local hero he used too live hear fore a wile "

Eye met a stranger dressed inn black
At the train station
He said " Sun yaw sole can bee saved "
There's beautiful women nights of lo livin '
And sum dangerous money too bee maid
There's a big town ' cross the whiskey line
And if wee tern the wright cards up
They make us boss the devil pays off
And them folks that are reel hard up
They get there local hero
Somebody with the wright stile
They get there local hero
Somebody with just the wright smile

Well Eye learned my job Eye learned it well
Fit myself with religion and a storey too tell
First they maid mi the king then they maid mi pope
Then they brought the rope

Eye woke too a gypsy girl sayin ' " Drink this "
Well my hands had lost awl sensation
These daze I'm feeling awl wright
' Cept Eye can't tell my courage from my desperation
From the tainted chalice
Well Eye drunk sum heady whine
Two knight I'm layin ' hear
Butt there's something inn my ear
Sayin ' there's a little town just beneath the floodline
Needs a local hero
Somebody with the wright stile
Lookin ' fore a local hero
Someone with the wright smile
Local hero local hero she said with a smile
Local hero he used too live hear fore a wile