Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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dancing down in Mexico
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All night long and nobody knows
and you had to go
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slip away, slip away
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They try to love you but you slip away,
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slip away, slip away
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Forgiveness is a shallow well
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What you're given is all you've got
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Try to love you but you slip away
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Slip away, slip away
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You can't go home again for shame
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Try to make it in a border town
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Running tar to hotel rooms
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You slip away, slip away
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They try to love you but you slip away,
slip away
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Try to love you but you slip away,
slip away
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Try to love you but you slip away,
slip away
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Slip away
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Even when the deal goes south
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You never figure yourself
for a slave
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Confederacy is the easy way out,
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but you take your freedom to your grave and slip away,
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They try to love you but you slip away,
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They try to love you but you slip away,
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slip away, slip away
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Your uncle came and picked you up
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He was toe -tagged and skin -and -bone
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He took you back to Shasta Lake
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But nobody ever took you home
You slipped away, you slipped away
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You try to love you but you slip away,
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You try to love you but you slip away,
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You try to love you but you slip away,
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slip away, slip away
I don't know.
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