Key: D major•
Verse 1
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I wish
I'd known
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don't you know?
Mama was no prude,
but she was proper,
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never wore her dress too short
She didn't care if you did,
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but she'd have never taken a drink
Grandma Kate did the best
she could to see
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Mama grew up right
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and to wear some gentleman's ring
I wish I'd known a man
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and sang a real sweet song
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cause mama was a lady, don't you know?
I hear he came to town one day
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in a rusty old 49 Ford
Selling ladies' shoes
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and assorted greeting cards
He was killin' good lookin'
and easy to like
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and turnin' all the ladies' heads
But he saw mama first,
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some of them traveling men are
I wish I'd known the man
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and sang a real sweet song
I wish I'd known the man
Mama seemed to forget the things
that
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Grandma Kate had always told her
She ran away one night
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with that traveling man
They bought gas at a rebus truck stop
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But he brought home next day a lady
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with a ring upon her hand
Mama's told me about the fever
that took him
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And I can remember him pitching me up
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Lord, I loved to sit and listen to her
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and she said he
I wish I'd known the man
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and sang a real sweet song
a little better
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don't you know?
little better
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don't you know?
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G C A
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