Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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They're taking her children away
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Because they said she was not
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They're taking her children away
Because she was making it with
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sisters and brothers
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And everyone else, all of the others
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Like cheap officers who would stand
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there and flirt in front of me
Verse 2
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Because they said she was not
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a good mother
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They're taking her children away
Because of the things that they
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heard she had done
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The black Air Force sergeant
was not the first one
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And all of the drugs she took,
Verse 3
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the real game's not over here
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in' anyway
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I'm just a tired man, no words to say
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But since she lost her daughter
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It's her eyes that fill with wa ter
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And I am much happier this way
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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They're taking her children away
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Because they said she was not
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They're taking her children away
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Because number on was the
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girl friend from Paris
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The things that they did - ah
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- they didn't have to ask us
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And then the Welshman from India,
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who came here to stay
Verse 5
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Be cause they said she was
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not a good mother
They're taking her children away
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Because of the things
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she did in the streets
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In the al leys and bars,
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no she couldn't be beat
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That miserable rotten slut couldn't turn anyone away
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
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the real game's not over here
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But my heart is overflowin' anyway
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I'm just a tired man,
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no words to say
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But since she lost her daughter
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It's her eyes that fill with wa ter
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And I am much happier this
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way
Outro 1
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