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Introduction:
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I met a girl named Mary Lou in 1987
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I met her through I guy i knew
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A guy that they called Kevin
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The three of us got cocked one night
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and we robbed a liqure store
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And once we got the taste for it
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we only wanted more
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grocery stores and gas stations became our favorite pray
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then one night Kevin blew a checkout girl away
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After that they were never happy with just the money
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They seem to think that blowing folks away was pretty funny
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I knew I had to get out, ?cause they were both quite wags
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But I knew that if I walked away they shoot me in the back
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Than one night Mary Lou asked me over for some fun
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I knew I couldnt trust her, so I brought along a gun
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She mixed me up a drink, she told me it would taste real groovy
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I took one zip and than everything look like a three day movie
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As I stagered round the room, I saw two of Mary Lou
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They both pulled out their pistols, so i put mine out too
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Her bullet hit the sofa, my bullet hit her head
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And her body stagered back and felt down, spraught out on the bed
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Just as she was falling Kevin walked inside
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My revolver was the last thing that he saw before he died
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The first shot hit him in the face, right below his nose
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The second and the third one, they were just extras for the road
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As his brain striped down the wall, I graped myselfe a beer
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O drank to Kevin and Mary Lou, so long, it was quite a year
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I steped over his body and I walked down the stairs
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I knew someone would find them, but I knew no one will care
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As I got in my car, there was nobody arround
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I headed the direction that I see the sun go down