Key: G
Introduction: G F C G
G C G
And my belly is craving, I got a shakin' in my head,
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feel like I'm dyin' and I wish I was dead.
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If I lived till tomorrow that?ll be a long time,
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but I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on codine,
G C G
and it's real, and it's real, one more time.
G C G
Well, when I was a young girl I learned not to care,
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got whiskey, confronted, I often did swear.
G7 D
My mother and father said whiskey is a curse,
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but the fate of their baby was many times worse,
G C G
and it's real, and it's real, one more time.
G7 C G
Stay away from the cities, stay away from the towns,
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stay away from the men pushin' the codine around.
G7 D
Stay away from the stores where the remedy is found,
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for better your pain than because of codine.
G C G
and it's real, and it's real, one more time.
G7 C G
You'll forget you?re a woman, you'll forget about man,
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try it just once, and you'll try it again.
G7 D
You?ll forget about life, you?ll forget about time,
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and you will live all your days as a slave to codeine.
G C G
and it's real, and it's real, one more time.
G C G
But if I die tomorrow, still one thing I?ve done,
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I?d heeded the warning that I got when I was young.
G7 D
My one satisfaction that comes when I say
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That I'm living my life with abandon to drink
G C G
and it's real, and it's real, one more time.
G7 C G
And my belly is craving, I got a shaking in my head
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I feel like I'm dyin' and I wish I was dead.
G7 D
If I live till tomorrow that?ll be a long time,
G F C G
for I'll reel and I'll fall and I?ll die on codine,
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and it's real, and it's real, one more time.