Marvin chords by Randy Huston
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Some men
from Oahe and Catron Counties
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Got together to make them a plan
Went into the bar with a
thunderous roar
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Walked a mountainous man
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He sat on two barstools,
grabbed him a bottle
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Then glared with the eyes of a snake
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He was big as a boxcar, tall as a tree
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And tough as a Ted Turner steak
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He was Marvelous Marvin,
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a modern -day thief
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A bureaucrat that had gone bad
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A slick -willy, sycophant, babbitt believer
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He worked for the BLM
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So the law was behind him,
a man on a mission
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He knew he could do no wrong
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He said, I won't be happy
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till this country's empty
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All the cows and the cowboys are gone
He bellowed, hey, barkeep,
how can a man drink
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in a place that's smelling like cows?
For a nickel, I'd do it,
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there'd be nothing to it, barehanded
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I'd clean this place out. Well,
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Idaho Dave and Nevada Slim
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happened to be there that day.
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They'd been pushed around
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by these government thugs
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And they'd finally had
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all they could take
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Then in a flash there was a full Nelson
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Had Marvin pinned to the spot
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Slim broke a pool cue over a bar stool
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And tenderized Marvin a lot
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For years of abuse,
they weren't getting even
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They took turns to make it more fair
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When the stomping was done,
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old Marvin was stomped
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From his Birkenstocks up to his hair
They pried out his earring
and punched in a fly tag
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They rolled him and branded his butt
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Slim said, I can tell that
you're not papered,
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and for a nickel, son,
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you'd leave hair cut.
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Turns out the boys couldn't
scrape up five cents,
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was a drought,
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and the market was bad.
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Nobody thought to check
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Marvin's pockets,
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he'd lost a lot more they had.
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Dave loaded him up
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in the taxpayer's truck
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Said, Marvin,
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we're glad that you stopped
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As you pointed out,
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this bar needed cleaning
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You made a mighty good mop
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His pickup threw gravel
clear out to the cattle
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That grazed the allotment out back
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That man on a mission
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just lost his ambition.
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Those were the last stones that
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he cast.
Now Marvin's a barber in San Francisco
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with his nickel that he framed for luck.
From that fateful day,
when the lack of the dough
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Was all that kept Marvin a buck
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Idaho Dave and Nevada Swim
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Went way past what the law allows
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But there's still a lesson
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for you cowboy haters
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You'd rather have us punching cows
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So all you tree huggers,
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you Bruno snail lovers,
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Sierra clubbers,
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cowboy hatin' pluggers,
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You'd rather have us punchin',
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you'd rather have us punchin' cows.
you
Marvin
Randy Huston
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