Key: G minor
Intro 1
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A#dim
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Verse 1
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I've got a man
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But he just won't treat me right
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He knocked me silly with a rock
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ing chair
Verse 2
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I stayed out one night
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But he done got my coat
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'Cause he told me to my face
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And she's done taken my place
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Won't somebody
Verse 3
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open
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up his eyes?
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'Cause that is graveyard words
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And I'll show him be fore
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he dies
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That them is graveyard words
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I can
Verse 4
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putting flowers on doors
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he never come back no more
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Tell him that I'll fix him sure as
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two and two is four
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'Cause them is graveyard words
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Go and tell him that he's
Verse 5
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slowly dying
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words
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Please don't let me lose
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my rightful mind
Verse 6
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My razor's sharpened too
He'll think the world done fell on him
When my dirty work is through
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Tell him that I'll do just
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what I said I'd do
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Oh them is graveyard words
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