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Dave Carter
August 13, 1952 - July 19, 2002

Frank To Valentino

© 1997 Dave Carter / Dave Carter Music (BMI)

they raised him up on the installment plan -- the homely son of a handsome man
neither clear-complected nor expected to achieve
a little bit ragged, a little big rough, a little too rowdy for the summer of love
now he's looking for a reason to believe

and he's changed his name from Frank to Valentino
he's growin' out his sideburns, and he's wearin platform shoes
and he's drivin on the midnight road from Medford down to Reno
and he thinks he's found a way to cure his workin blues

he got himself married at seventeen; she looked real pretty but she talked kinda mean
he thought they'd work things out in the fullness of time
twenty years later he's headed south, the close-range victim of her sawed-off mouth
leavin their salad days behind

and he's changed his name from Frank to Valentino ...

Lord have mercy on the workin stiff, pullin graveyards and double-shifts
tryin to hold his own beside the pretty and the bright
givin up the dream of his own backyard, jugglin taxes and credit cards
see him rollin like a ghost train through the night

and he's changed his name from Frank to Valentino ...

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