The Ballad of Iris & Pearl chords by John Gorka
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Verse 1
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Pearl and Iris,
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Iris and Pearl
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Unsung heroes of the music world
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Pearl and Iris, Iris and Pearl
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Iris played guitar and sang like a bird
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Pearl played banjo like no one had heard
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Bill Monroe, Lester and Earl
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Learned from the stylings of Iris and Pearl
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Blue Moon of Kentucky, an old Irish tune
She gave it to Bill
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on one morning in June
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Their genius was sure,
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but their egos were such
Cared less about cash
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than a treat or a touch
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Pearl and Iris, Iris and Pearl
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Pearl and Iris, Iris and Pearl
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In Macy's Springs,
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not far from Tennessee
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They took care of A .P. and
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Sarah for free
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Didn't take to travel,
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and neither could drive
They could have been as
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big as any band alive
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Iris taught a boy named Elvis to sing
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He and Pearl once had a thing
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Pearl broke it off, made him shake and stir
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But he was just a hound dog to her
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Pearl and Iris, Iris and Pearl
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A north country town
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taught a boy named Bob
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And by all accounts did a pretty fair job
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I think I have told too much of their tale
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They never put their souls up for sale
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Pearl and Iris, Iris and Pearl
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Unsung heroes of the mu sic world
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The Ballad of Iris & Pearl
John Gorka
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