Key: G major•
Intro 1
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C
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D
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Verse 1
I am an old
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woman named after my mother
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D
My old man is an other child
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C
that's grown old
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If dreams were lightning
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thunder was desire
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D
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D
down a long time ago
Verse 2
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me an angel that flies
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Make me a poster of an old rodeo
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Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
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D
To believe in this living is just a hard
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Verse 3
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When I was a young girl well,
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He weren't much to look at,
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just free rambling man
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But that was a long time
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and no matter how I try
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The years just flow by like
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a broken down dam.
Verse 4
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Make me a poster of an old rodeo
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Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
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D
To believe in this living is just a hard
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way to go
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Verse 5
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There's flies in the kitchen
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I can hear 'em there buzzing
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since I woke up today.
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How the hell can a person go to work
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in the morning
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C
and have nothing to say.
Verse 6
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an angel that flies
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G
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
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G
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
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Em
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is just a hard way to go
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG C D F Em
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