That's Why chords by John Gorka
Intro 1
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He was born a man, he
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died a myth
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The man part left and the rest stayed with
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One part vision one part dream
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Partly mirror and partly screen
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That's why, why they say
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he never died
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Verse 2
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The fat man's gone the thin one stayed
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Still flashy in that gold lame
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Lick his back and press him down
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Mail him to another town
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That's why, why they say
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he never died
Verse 3
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Things got hot in the styles he mixed
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Did you see him move in '56
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Gun smoke over the Sullivan show
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Shot waist up from Tupelo
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Verse 4
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The Colonel's
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army took the soul
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That went by the name of King
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Creole
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And he's gone gone gone
Verse 5
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He's left this life, he's left this stage
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He's left the building but not the age
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We asked too much
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we took his best
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Couldn't let him live,
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can't let him rest
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That's why, why they say he never died
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Interlude 1
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It's America's own strange
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disease
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How we merchandise our tragedies
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If I invoke his name in vain
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Then too I share in all the blame
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For why, why they say
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he's still alive
Outro 1
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That's Why
John Gorka
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