Live 19 Apr 1996 version
[Spoken intro:] Thanks. When I was uh... I remember when I was a kid and I first picked up the guitar... you always thought that if you wrote the right song or you did the right thing and took the right stand, you could have some effect on, on the world or change it in some way. I think you get older and a lot of that gets knocked out of you sometimes. And uh, it's easy to forget. So this is a song about somebody that changes the ─ saves the part of the world that, that they can touch. That's not so bad.
Well Booby said he'd pull out, Bobby stayed in
Janey had a baby wasn't any sin
They were set to marry on a summer day
But Bobby got scared and he ran away
Well Jane moved in with here ma out on Shawnee Lake
She sighed, "Ma, sometimes my whole life feels like one big mistake"
She settled in in a back room, time passed on
Later that winter a son came along
Spare parts and broken hearts keep the dirty world turning around
Well Janey walked that baby across the floor night after night
But she was young and she missed the party life
Meanwhile in South Texas in a dirty oil patch
Bobby heard 'bout his son being born and swore he wasn't ever going back
Spare parts and broken hearts keep the dirty world turning around
Janey heard about a woman over in Calverton
Put her baby in the river let the river roll on
She looked at her boy in that crib where he lay
Got down on her knees and cried till she prayed
Well mist was on the water low run the tide
Janey held her son down at the riverside
Waist deep in the river how bright the sun shone
She lifted him in her arms and carried him home
As he lay sleeping in her bed she took a look around at everything
Went to a drawer in her bureau and got out her old engagement ring
Took out her wedding dress tied that ring up in its sash
Went straight down to the pawn shop man and walked out with some good cold cash
Spare parts and broken hearts keep the dirty world turning around
Spare parts and broken hearts keep the dirty world turning
The above lyrics are for the live 19 Apr 1996 performance of SPARE PARTS at ICC Berlin Saal 1 in Berlin, Germany, during The Ghost Of Tom Joad Solo Acoustic Tour. The song was played solo on acoustic guitar and harmonica.
This live 19 Apr 1996 version of SPARE PARTS was included on the Missing EP, which was issued in Europe and South Africa. The spoken intro is edited out on the official release.
The 4-track Missing EP was also included as a bonus disc with a limited 2-disc European edition of Greatest Hits in 1996, a limited 2-disc Australian edition of The Ghost Of Tom Joad in 1997, and a limited 2-disc Japanese edition of The Ghost Of Tom Joad in 1997.
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