The Three Sofa Story chords by Tom T. Hall
Verse 1
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I was sittin'
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and drinkin' in an old friend's apartment
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On the west side of
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Nashville one night
And in this apartment he
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had these three sofas
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He had two too many all right
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I said, buddy, tell me about these three so fas
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and start with that black one there first
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He said, there's a story in each of these sofas,
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but give me a minute for quenching my thirst
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He said, now that first one is a good one for sweep
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ing I got that one from my first wife
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She left me half crazy,
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took all of the babies
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And drove off to
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Houston one night
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Well I did as I pleased and
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I said what I thought
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And it drove her right out of her mind
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So many abuses and no damned excuses
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I've often been told that I'm one of that kind
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Now that second sofa,
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I got that from a pal
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Who was broke and was
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headed back home
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He was rim cut and rusty,
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boozed out and dusty
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And I got that thing for a song
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On long winter evenings I'd
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sit on that sofa
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And listen to that fella sing
Well I could do without it
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But there's something about it
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That makes me believe I'm attached to the thing
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That third one right there,
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there's a story about it
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I got that one from my second wife
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A middle -aged lady with money to spend
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I guess she was the love of my life
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I like to never got that
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damn thing in here
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Cause it don't seem to fit any house
It's oblong and shapeless
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It's ugly and tasteless
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But I got it in here and I'll get it out
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I thanked him for telling
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the three sofa story
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I yawned and I said my good night
And on my way home I
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considered the sofas
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And how they were
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part of his life
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Buddies and sweethearts,
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the winners and losers
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Kept conjuring up in my mind
And it's all in the telling of
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the three sofa story
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Just one of the places where I have done time
The Three Sofa Story
Tom T. Hall
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