Key: E major
Verse 1
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I went
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to the courthouse
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To pay my fine
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I saw your sweet face
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And now she's mine
We found a hotel room
Where we draw them blinds
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Verse 2
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She cooked me supper
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I built that fire
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She drained that crankcase
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Verse 3
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Gather 'round people,
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Edim
gonna have a good time
Down the drain
woman ain't had enough
A life of crime
Verse 4
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For me to live like this
When it comes to the wrong thing
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With my 357
Y'know Danny Barnes
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Verse 5
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But I've been drinkin'
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that wine (wine)
Friend of mine
Gather 'round children,
gonna have a good time
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Time (time)
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Down the drain
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With love (love)
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Dreamin' of a broke- down
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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time's drawn nearer
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I can't find my way (way)
If it gets any clearer
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I won't have nothin' to say
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About these screwtop bottles
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I've been drinkin' all day
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Interlude 2
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Verse 7
She was so fine and so fair
She had good looks God knows
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And coal- black hair
Verse 8
mind
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He couldn't believe his mind
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Samsomn's knee
She said, "Tell me where your strength lies,
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And she spoke so kind
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God knows, and talked so fair
Samson said, "Delilah,
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you can cut off my hair"
"You can shave my head,
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clean my hands
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My strength becomes natural in your bed"
Verse 9
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If I had my way
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If I had my way
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I would tear this ol' building down
Verse 10
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Ever since the boy's birth
He was the strongest man that
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ever did live on earth
One day while Samson was
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walking along
He looked down on the ground
He saw that ol' jawbone
Rinsed out his aurals
God knows he shaved
Verse 11
The 10,000 were dead
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If I had my way
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I would tear this ol' building down
Verse 12
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that wine (wine)
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gonna have a good time
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Time (time)
Down the drain
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All of my people done gone insane
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With love (love)
woman ain't had enough
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A life of crime
Interlude 3
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Verse 13
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They got up an d tight
Samson done crawled up
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on the lion's back
You read about this lion
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He killed a man with his paws
Samson got his hands
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God knows, he killed him dead
Then the bees made some honey
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In the lion's den
Verse 14
wine (wine)
Friend of mine
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gonna have a good time
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Time (time)
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Down the drain
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C#dim
All of my people done gone insane
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With love (love)
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Dreamin' of a broke- down
A life of crime
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An 8- ball baby, and well I've been
Verse 15
wine (wine)
Friend of mine
Down the drain
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All of my people done gone insane
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With love (love)
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Dreamin' of a broke- down woman
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A life of crime
Verse 16
An 8- ball baby, and a jug of wine
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If I had my way
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If I had my way
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I would tear this ol' building down
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If I had my way
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I would tear this ol' building down
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I would tear this ol' building down
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