The First Mrs. Jones chords by Jeffrey Foucault, Mark Erelli
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Her real first name was Betty,
but I'd rather just forget it
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So I'll call her the first Mrs. Jones
We were married in September,
and it lasted till November
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And one day she just took out on her own
I followed her to Savannah
New Orleans and then Atlanta
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Every day I begged her to come home
Pretty soon I started drinking,
trying hard to keep from thinking
Just how much I loved the
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first Mrs. Jones
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It was cold and dark one morning,
just before the day was done
When I staggered from a tavern
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out to a phone
And she picked up her receiver, I said
You're gonna come back or
Either they're gonna be calling you
the late Mrs. Jones
I put a pistol in my jacket
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Stumbled out and hailed a taxi
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I told the taxi driver
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to take me to her home
I remember walking proudly
Everybody said I yelled out loudly
Come on out or I'm gonna come in,
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Mrs. Jones
The next thing I recall
was walking to the forest
Looking for a place to hide her bones
I dug and I dug for hours
Then I planted flowers
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Right on top of the first, Mrs. Jones
I'm haunting my little stories again
All I can see is I'm so near you
Little beads of perspiration
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dot your grove
Aren't you sorry now that you left me?
Really now, don't you want
to come go with me?
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After all, you are the second Mrs. Jones
The First Mrs. Jones
Jeffrey Foucault, Mark Erelli
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