The Wig He Made Her Wear chords by Drive-By Truckers

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It was as open- and- shut as anything I have seen
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He was a pillar of town,
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his reputation was clean
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It was right before Easter in the first
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week of spring
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He didn't show up for service
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that Wednesday night
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The congregation knew
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something weren't right
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Blood on the bed when they
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opened the door
The preacher was dead on

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Verse 2

the bedroom floor

Everyone knew there had to be some out

side thing that made this happen

Because they seemed

like the perfect family

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He'd been shot in the back a
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day before he was found
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His wife and three kids were
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nowhere around
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An Amber Alert   was
issued in town
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Everyone was shocked at
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the scene of the crime
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She'd taken the kids across
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two state lines
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Found her in Orange Beach
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with the kids in the car
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Sent back to Selma to await her tri
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al  for first- degree murder
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Interlude 1

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Was she crazy or
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just plain old mean to have gone and done it?
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She said she heard the bang and was afraid he'd be mad,
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and made a run for it
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Said, they were

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having a fight
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and the gun was a bluff
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She didn't pull the trigger,
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it just went off
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Said that he berated her
about everything
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Make her do things that made
her feel so ashamed
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Nobody at church would ever suspect
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Made her dress up
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slutty before they had sex
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In the courtroom that day there was
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an audible gasp
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What they put up on display the locals could
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n't quite grasp
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There was an audible gasp in
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the courtroom that day
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When the defense pulled
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out and displayed

Verse 7
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Them high- heeled shoes and that
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wig he made her wear
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Reduced her charge to voluntary
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manslaughter
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And I ain't judging either way,
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but she's already out of jail
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And it  was them high- heeled shoes and that wig he made her wear

Outro 1
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