Key: G
Introduction: G
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I once had a woman so fair and fine
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the greatest thing I've ever known
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but I gave up the greatest thing I've ever had
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for the sound of a honky tonk song
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Well I hit the road and left her all a lone
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and now I wish I could turn back time
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back to when she was home but now she?s gone
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and it's nobody?s fault but mine
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cause she never did nothin to make me push her away
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she never did nothin wrong
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she never did nothin but love me to death
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and now she ain't nothin but gone
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don't nothin sound better than a guitar tuned good
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base fiddle and voice right on key
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ex cept for the sound of her sweet soft voice
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when she?d smile and say she loves me
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but I gave her away for a song and a stage
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and now a crowd and lights are all I see
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but when the curtain comes down my life turns dark
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and once a gain I sink in miser y
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cause she never did nothin to make me push her away
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she never did nothin wrong
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she never did nothin but love me to death
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and now she ain't nothin but gone
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No she never did nothin but love me to death
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and now she ain't nothin but gone
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