Just A Few Words chords by Patty Larkin

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Verse 1
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They had a cross on the hill
and a flag in the yard
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An off -white picket fence
and a broken -down car
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A player of piano
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that     played claret alone
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A weekend garage sale
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that ran June to June
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And he was off in the woods
somewhere,
people would talk
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I was working the counter
the day he got shot
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Still in his boots out    there,
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stuck in the mud
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With a St. Louis decal
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on the back of his truck
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An       d  oh,
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the last time a son's changing a tire
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He duct -taped the muffler
and held it with wire
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Off on the shoulder by
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the good luck saloon
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He stood on one leg
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and said, yeah, I'll come back soon
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And he was just seventeen
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when he started to sing
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He sang with the angels
and he sang with the king
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Off in the corner of       the
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Hank Williams songs
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Him and the jukebox singing along
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And she was dressed like a nun,
black shoes and black hat
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Well it takes one to know one
and I know about that
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She moved like a dancer
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and smelled of perfume
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She ate carnival food
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in the back of the room
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And it was goodbye to Texas,
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remember the name
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Goodbye to the town
that remembers your name
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This life ain't nothin'  but
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an old fig      ure eight
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You think you've figured it out,
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then get twisted      by fate
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And it was never the same,
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was never that good
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But there was no one to blame,
how could you know that it wouldn't?
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They ran the old bit in   the paper,
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it was just a few words,
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not much to say
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They had a cross on the hill,
a flag in the yard,
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an off -white picket fence,
and a broken -down car.
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A play     er piano played clear to loom
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A weekend garage sale
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that ran June     to June
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Mm... ...mm... .mm... ...mm... ...mm...