Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was driv
ing through my hometown
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I was just kinda killin' time
When I seen a face staring out
of a black velvet painting
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From the window of the five and dime
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I couldn't quite recall the name
But the pose looked familiar to me
So I asked the salesgirl "Who
was that man
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Between the doberman and
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Bruce Lee?"
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She said "Just a local hero"
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"Local hero" she said
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with a smile
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"Yeah a local hero he used to
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live here for a while"
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Verse 2
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I met a stranger dressed in black
At the train station
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He said "Son your soul
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can be saved"
There's beautiful women
nights of low livin'
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And some dangerous money
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to be made
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There's a big town 'cross
the whiskey line
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And if we turn the right cards up
They make us boss the devil pays off
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And them folks that are real hard up
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They get their local hero
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Somebody with the right style
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They get their local hero
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Somebody with just
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the right smile
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Verse 3
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Well I learned my job I learned it well
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Fit myself with religion
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and a story to tell
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First they made me the king
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then they made me pope
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Then they brought the rope
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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I woke to a gypsy girl
sayin' "Drink this"
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Well my hands had lost
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all sensation
These days I'm feeling all right
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'Cept I can't tell my courage
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from my desperation
From the tainted chalice
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Well I drunk some heady wine
Tonight I'm layin' here
But there's something in my ear
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Sayin' there's a little town just
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beneath the floodline
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Needs a local hero
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Somebody with the right style
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Lookin' for
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a local hero
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Someone with
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the right smile
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Local hero local hero
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she said with a smile
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Local hero he used to live here for
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a while
Outro 1
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