Answer: two great songs with the same exact theme and narrative approach,

[By the way, note that in the Jones song (second song below), there is one of the greatest rhymes in all of English song-writing: "nursery" is rhymed with mercy", and this rhyme works because in a lot of Southern US dialects, "nursery" is pronounced with just two syllables instead of three, like "nurs'ry".]

Ο παλιατζής (Διονυσίου Στράτος)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_E0hhCFY2c

http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?in...s&song_id=6641

Στίχοι: Δημήτρης Γκούτης
Μουσική: Αντώνης Ρεπάνης
Πρώτη εκτέλεση: Στράτος Διονυσίου

Αυτό το σπίτι που το βλέπεις σκοτεινό
τον παλιατζή απόψε νά ’ρθει περιμένει
για να μαζέψει ακόμα ό,τι μένει
από μια αγάπη που χτυπήθηκε σκληρά
από του μαύρου χωρισμού τη συμφορά

Πάρε ό,τι θέλεις, παλιατζή
από μια αγάπη που δε ζει
αφού δε ζούμε πια μαζί
πάρε ό,τι θέλεις, παλιατζή

Πάρ’ το τσουβάλι κι έλα μέσα, παλιατζή
έχω ενθύμια πολλά να το γεμίσεις
Μάζεψε όλες τις σκληρές μου αναμνήσεις
δεν έχω δύναμη να βλέπω τα παλιά
που μου θυμίζουν μια χαμένη αγκαλιά

Πάρε ό,τι θέλεις...

Lyrics: Dimitris Ykoutis
Music: Antonis Repanis
First version: Stratos Dionysiou

This house which looks dark
is waiting for the junk dealer to come tonight
so he can gather what still exists
from a love that was hit violently
by the disaster of a terrible divorce

Take whatever you want , junk dealer
from a love which isn't alive
since we don't live together any more
Take whatever you want , junk dealer

Take the sack and come in , junk dealer
I have got lots of souvenirs to fill it
Gather all my sad memories
I don't have enough power to look at those old things
which remind me of a lost embrance

Take whatever you want...

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"The Grand Tour" (George Jones)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEwgkcVWLk

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/georg...grandtour.html


Step right up, come on in
If you'd like to take the grand tour
Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home
I have nothing here to sell you,
Just some things that I will tell you
Some things I know will chill you to the bone.

Over there, sits the chair
Where she'd bring the paper to me
And sit down on my knee
And whisper oh, I love you
But now she's gone forever
And this old house will never
Be the same without the love
That we once knew.

Straight ahead, that's the bed
Where we'd lay in love together
And Lord knows we had a good thing going here
See her picture on the table
Don't it look like she'd be able
Just to touch me and say good morning dear.

There's her rings, all her things
And her clothes are in the closet
Like she left them
When she tore my world apart.

As you leave you'll see the nursery,
Oh, she left me without mercy
Taking nothing but
Our baby and my heart.

Step right up, come on in...