Me & Esther chords by Fred Eaglesmith

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Me and Esther, we got us an old car
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We stole it from a  crack ad dict
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the first night I met her
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It smells like gasoline
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and it runs a little hard
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But Esther says it makes her feel
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like she's a movie star
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Me and Esther,
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we ain't lovers, you know
We sleep in motel rooms,
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we both sleep in our clothes.
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Esther calls

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herself

Simone,

I'm her Jean -Paul, she says.

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I don't know what that means,

so I just look away.

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Esther's from Sequoia,

her daddy drank too much.

Verse 5
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did his wandering eyes
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became a sick man's touch
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when Esther talks about it
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her tears fall down in floods
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she left him in the doorway
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in a pool of blood
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me and Esther
we ain't lovers you know
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we sleep in motel rooms
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we both sleep in our clothes.
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Esther calls herself Simone.
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I'm her Jean -Paul, she says.
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But I don't know what that means
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so I just look away.
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Last night Esther was sleeping
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and I  went out on my own.
I held up Stetson's jewelry store
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at the point of a gun.
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They offered it all to me,
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but I  only took one thing.
And tonight I'm giving Esther
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a brand new diamond ring.
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Me and Esther,
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we ain't lovers, you know.
We sleep in motel rooms.
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We're both sleepin' or clothed
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Esther calls herself Simone
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I'm her Jean -Paul she says
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But I don't know what that means
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So I just look away
I don't know what that means
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So I just look away
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Thank Thank you.
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