Color in Your Cheeks chords by The Mountain Goats

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Verse 1
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She came in  on the red
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eye to Dallas- Ft. Worth
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All the way   from sunny Taipei
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Skin the color of a walnut shell
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And a baseball cap holding
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down her black hair
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And she came

Verse 2
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here after midnight
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The hot weather made her
feel right at home
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Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks
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Drink some of this,
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it'll put color in your cheeks
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He drove in  from

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Verse 3

Mex

icali, no worse for wear

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Money to burn, time to kill

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But five minutes looking

in his eyes and we all knew

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He was broken pretty bad so

we gave him what we had

Verse 4
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We cleared a space for him to sleep in
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And we let the silence that's our trademark
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make its presence felt
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Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks
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Drink some of this,
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it'll put color in your cheeks

Interlude 1

They came in by the

Verse 5
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dozens,
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walking or crawling
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Some were bright- eyed,
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some were dead on their feet
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And they came from Zimbabwe
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or from Soviet Georgia
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East St. Louis or from Paris or they lived
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across the street

Verse 6
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But they came, and when they fi
nally made it here
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It was the least we could do to
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make our welcome clear
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Come on in, we haven't slept for weeks
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Drink some of this, it'll put color in your cheeks