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Introduction: A G/A A G
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Well I met him in the navy
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He was the head of the class
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She was a cute little thing
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He liked the way she shook her glass
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And they went off to Texas
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And they bought some land yeah
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And they settled in a hobo
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Home by a taco stand
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He was doin' things he didn't understand
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There was no way to exlain it
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She was God's gift to man
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Well he got a promotion
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And he bought himself a color tv
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Had the cable put in
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And they watched a round of Jeopardy
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And they sat out in the evening
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And they watched the sun go down
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And everything they did
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They were livin' on the outside of town
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Well the time went by
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That he didn't understand
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She was God's gift to man
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Yeah baby tell me tell me real good
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Don't you know that we're livin' just like a young boy should?
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Well she went off to houston
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Where she was livin' in sin
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Well he built an office building
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But nobody moved in
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She wound up in El Paso
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On the streets again
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It was hard to take it
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But sometimes you just can't win
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It was after a little way
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That he didn't understand
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And couldn't understand that
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She was God's gift to man
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Well I seen her on tv just a couple of nights ago
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She was a doin' a commercial
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Smilin' with some ivory soap
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Well I knew inside her heart was black as coal
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There ain't no way to replace the amount of lovin' that little girl stole
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Yeah one day she got it comin'
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And she won't understand her niche
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She's God's gift to man
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Yeah I've been doin' things that I don't understand
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Yeah she's God's gift to man
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Alright, alright, alright