Key: G
Introduction:
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He was holding the McCulloch
C
When he knocked upon her door
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Yesterday she said she didn?t love him anymore
But it wasn?t her who answered
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It was some guy he didn?t know
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So he fired up that chainsaw
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and he laid that sucker low
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So he fired up that chainsaw
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and he laid that sucker low
But when he saw the clipboard lying
C
in the severed hand
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He realized that he just limbed from limbed
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the meter man
Heard the sirens coming, and he sat
C
down on the steps
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Shut off his McCulloch and he lit a cigarette
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Shut off his McCulloch and he lit a cigarette
The verdict, it was guilty and they said
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"you?re gonna fry"
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He didn?t see her in the back row,
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didn?t hear her cry
All that he could see was the terrified
C
face of the meter man
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The moment that he sent him packing to the
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promised land
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The moment that he sent him packing to the
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promised land
They led him down the hallway,
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and the priest said him a prayer
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He wasn?t none too happy,
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but he knew that fair was fair
Still he?d like to thank the meter man,
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for coming to the door
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Otherwise his true love would be
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lying scattered on the floor
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Otherwise his true love would be
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lying scattered on the floor
C
And as for her, she never loved again,
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no not one time
C
And though she broke his heart
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and led him to this ghastly crime
She prayed each day they?d be
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together on the other side
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And she cried herself to sleep each night until the
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day she died
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She cried herself to sleep each night until the
G
day she died