Elephant chords by Jason Isbell
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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She said, "Andy, you're better
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than your past"
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Winked me and drained her glass
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Cross-legged on a barstool,
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like nobody sits anymore
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She said, "Andy, you're taking me home"
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But I knew she planned to sleep alone
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I'd carry her to bed, sweep up
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the hair from the floor
Chorus 1
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If I'd fucked her before she got sick
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I'd never hear the end of it
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She don't have the spirit for that now
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We just drink our drinks and laugh out loud
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Bitch about the weekend crowd
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And try to ignore the elephant somehow
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Verse 2
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She said, "Andy, you crack me up"
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Seagram's in a coffee cup
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Sharecropper eyes,
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and the hair almost all gone
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When she was drunk,
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she made cancer jokes
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Made up her own doctors' notes
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surrounded by her family, I saw
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that she was dying alone
Chorus 2
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But I'd sing her classic country songs
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And she'd get high and sing along
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She don't have a voice to sing with now
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We burn these joints in effigy
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Cry about what we used to be
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Try to ignore the elephant somehow
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Somehow
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Chorus 3
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I buried her a thousand times,
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given up my place in line
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But I don't give a damn about that now
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There's one thing that's real clear to me
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No one dies with dignity
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We just try to ignore the elephant
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somehow
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We just try to ignore the elephant
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We just try to ignore the elephant
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somehow Somehow
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Elephant
Jason Isbell
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