Key: E major•
Verse 1
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She was born in an old Monason alley
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Her ma and her pa they called her Sal
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She grew up to be the pride of the valley
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A typical Monongahela gal
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She wandered one day by the river,
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Her heart gave a leap and a quiver,
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as she caught the handsome
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pilot's rolling eye.
Now his name, you must know,
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And he wore a fancy sporting coat.
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The slickest pilot ever steered a boat.
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Roll on, roll on Monongahela,
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down to the Mississippi,
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flare up to the Gulf of
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Mex ico.
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Now Mote gave a toot,
honest whistle,
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And Sal, stepping light as a thistle,
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Reached up and took Mote
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It was love, careless love, by the river
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For she never knew
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what love was like before
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He swore that he always
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would love her,
As they locked through the
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But that night overboard he did shove her,
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And then Moat Stanley
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took it on the land.
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Well, no one could say Sal was sickly
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But she high -tailed it right down for civically
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Slap pin' out a
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fast Australian crawl
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She hopped a fast freight for Rochester
And there was moat a
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From a yard bull who tried to molest her
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She up and swiped
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a great big .44 floor.
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She raised up that big shooting iron,
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And when she laid out that revolver,
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fancy sporting coat.
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long ago you used to be so pure
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messing up the Gulf of Mexico
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE B A F#m
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