Key: Bb major
Verse 1
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Verse 2
Bedded down in the back seat
With a shoebox museum of memories
She'd been a great actress
in two dozen movies
Played Shakespeare on the
Before the three husbands,
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Of fifty- eight odd years of age
Verse 3
With a passion for food
and film magazines
He'd seen all her movies,
worshipped her face
Though she bore no resemblance
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The film's over before real life begins
Verse 4
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In the Crazy Water Hotel
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells
Verse 5
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Verse 6
So they boarded a greyhound
in search of the fountain
Through the Great Painted Desert
and all across Texas
They got off in Fort Worth for
a fresh cup of coffee
And it dropped them in front of
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Verse 7
Disillusioned they found a cheap
room off the highway
There'd be no healing return
to the past
So the critic and the film star
held hands and drank vodka
And drunk but still dreaming they
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells
Verse 8
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In the Crazy Water Hotel
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells
Verse 9
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells
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