Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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girl with velvet eyes
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had a pocket full of wishes and
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a pocket full of lies
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she crossed a path with a crooked smile
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and just kept go ing for a thousand miles
Verse 2
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She walked so far she almost fell off
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she once fell down and she
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talked to a guy with a big radio
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and a man on the corner
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playing dominoes
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no one down there had fancy clothes
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it was a sad and lonely time
Verse 3
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Build me a house by the waterside
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take me to Jordan in the summertime
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I won't feel lost in your arms
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I will be ever by your side
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Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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you won't go alone every night to bed
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he sent her a lover for a pile of tears
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
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Now all the flags in this part
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of town were black
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shirts and old felt hats
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the girl and her lover bought a sailing ship
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took off their clothes and
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tied them to the mast
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sailed away and they never came back
Verse 6
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Build me a house by the waterside
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take me to Jordan in the summertime
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I won't feel lost in your arms
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Ithe people
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wondered by and by
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about the girl who'd been struck
Verse 7
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For she felt no shame she lived
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because love is a strange and sweet disease
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Interlude 3
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Build me a house
Verse 8
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by the waterside
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take me to Jordan in the summertime
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I won't feel lost in your arms
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Am
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I will be ever by your side
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Outro 1
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