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objective
The way you spoke was too aggressive
The silly jokes were not impressive
Like "A travelling salesman met a farmer with three daughters", yet
All

Raven in the Storm

Mary Black

Circus

1995

give

I'm the ghost of a travelling salesman
My foot will be there in your door
Though I can walk through walls and windows
I will knock just like before

Taking That Red-Eye Home

Suzy Bogguss

Suzy Bogguss

1999

doesn't smoke
A travelling salesman tells her a joke
She just stares out the window as they're packing that jet
Not quite sad, but she's not laughing yet

Sake Of The Song

Hayes Carll

Lovers and Leavers

2016

the travelling salesman, the girl next door
On the empty room to the bird on the corner 
Less is less until more is more
And it's all for the sake of the song

the Singapore straits
Travelling salesman and a body guard
Putting Chinese merchandise into Russian arms
A long cold rail ahead, well at the border you could wind

a travelling salesman
Loved God but scarred her good

Hold me tight I'm falling down, she says
Hold me tight I'm falling down, she says
Hold me tight I'm

Ghostwrite

Bad Astronaut

Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment

individuals
Cloning the new originals
Follow us for king land rituals

I am a spokesman for a derivative
Travelling salesman
Selling old narrative
True sounds

wrapped around
wrapped around yourself
you've led your party to victory
now you don't want it
gagged and bound
the voice there was before
travelling

in. 
Clearly silhouetting the slickest of forms in salesman uniform. 

Not unlike a travelling minister, he shows his goods but with a sinister smile.

It's smokey 
And I like it 

The salesman said it was deadly 
His time-travelling jelly bean 
He said it would bring us confession 
The sky