Backwood's Girl chords by
Doug Sahm
Doug Sahm
Sir Douglas Quintet
Sir Douglas Quintet

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Key: G major
Verse 1
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She left the college crying,
they didn't understand her no more
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Now she floats around the house,
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doesn't get much anymore
She's a queen of all the ladies
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Put her soul to deep despair
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But she floats around the place
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Doesn't even have a care
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She used to be the queen
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Of all the balls in town
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She used to be the queen
of the balls
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Wherever she's around
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She left the cottage crying
She just couldn't understand
her no more
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Now she floats around the house
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Doesn't get much anymore
She's a queen of all the ladies
But her pride begins to show
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She's just another honky -tonk
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She's just a billy -wonk
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She's just kind of,
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kind of a backward girl
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Oh, baby, don't you understand
If it wasn't for backward girls
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Well, me the backwoods man
What you gonna try?
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What you gonna do to me, baby
When I go?
If you think I'll be around
Hold it there
And you'll know
That it's your clown
When the snow hits the ground
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I will be back
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She's just a backwoods girl
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That's all she is
And she makes it backward, man
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You're awful, awful good
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She's the queen of all the ladies
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The one that lays it down
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Most of all
She's my lady
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And she follows me around
She'd buy the time to write me,
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just to let me know you ran away
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But Dilley Sue was only twelve,
but her folks went away
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They didn't understand what
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it took to make a groove
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And then she went to California
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with nothing, nothing to do
She arrived at the Greyhound station
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The corner of 7th and Market
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in San Francisco that night
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And night it sure was right
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Right there tonight
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Well, you see, this backwood girl,
she wanted to unfold a mystery
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As she walked down the San
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Francisco streets at night
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She was just a little girl
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that nobody understood
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They just said,
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she'll go through her changes someday
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But you know as well as I do
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That she's her father's in -choo
And it don't make no difference to her
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If her birthday comes in June
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Joelle,
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she's just a backwoods girl in the city
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Oh, she's just a backwood
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girl in the city law
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But will you please come back to me
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Love this backwood man
one more time
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Please come back, back,
back, back to the woods
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And love me one more time
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She's just a back, back,
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backwood girl
Backwoods, that's what she had
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a claim to fame.
Goodnight.

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