Key: F# minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When I first met Belinda,
it was down in Corpus Christi
Back in August, I believe,
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in fifty -three
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And her life -s ize ticket photo
Back on
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Tantalizingly from the mar
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Music partied on the street
And the club, I'm sure,
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had seen its better days
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And a sea of bleary eyes
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Watched Belinda as she danced
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within the noisy smokey haze
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but you cannot know my mind
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She moved her lips but did
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but you cannot know my mind
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she re vealed her body slowly,
so that all the cowboys streamed
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and creamed to see.
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Her sequined skirts would swirl and frowl and catch the light and sparkle,
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and Belinda's
But as a child I'm sure
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And I used to wonder, used to ponder
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Just what did go wrong?
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that was not always what she seemed
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but you cannot know my mind
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didn't make a sound
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but you cannot know my mind
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Then she'd dip and crawl
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Then one night I wrote a hasty note
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and threw it on the stage
Asking her if she would have
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a drink with me
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about the sunshine and the country
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And a tear came to her
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eye quite suddenly
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An d I listened to her,
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Finally I asked her, tell me Belinda,
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what does your life mean?
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She looked me in the eye
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and told me forty bucks a week
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She said to me as she
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prepared to go
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but you cannot know my mind
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Then she left and left to do her second
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