Calhoun chords by Marty Cooper

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I  was walkin'
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by this old hotel downtown
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With a bottle of gin staring
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at  the ground
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Oh, and I heard a lady screaming
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through a half -drawn window,
she ain't
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So I sat down on the sidewalk
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to see what it was
she said, she said
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Calhoun, you done brought me down
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Calhoun,
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I just can't show my face in town
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You told me someday I'd be your wife
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But now you've left me,
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you done ruined my life
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I took a sip of gin and thought I'd stay
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Just to see what old
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Calhoun was gonna say
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So I drew near her window
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just to hear better what I heard
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She just kept on raving,
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Calhoun never said a word
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She said, Calhoun,
I gotta raise a knife
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Calhoun,
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I'm gonna take your manger life
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I'm gonna cut you both wide and deep
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Then I'm gonna dress up
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in black and green
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Well that gin done got me crazy as a loon
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And I thought I ought to
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try to save Calhoun
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So I leaped through her window
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and she slashed me with her knife
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And I  could hear her sayin'
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as I lay there who's alive, she said
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Calhoun, honey, is that you?
Uh -uh, uh -uh
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Calhoun,
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I warned you just what I would do
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Now I ain't seen you for thirty years
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But I knew someday you'd
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have to come back here
Now if you're ever drinkin' gin
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on Saturday night
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And through a window shade
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you hear a fight
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Just keep on drinkin'
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and walk the other way
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Remember Calhoun and the
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price you'll pay