Tono: G
Introducción: G C G D
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You write about a place so dear, in all its good and evil
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A loving cup, an aching scar, you need no thread and needle
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To sew your name into your clothes or hem a ragged line
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All muscular and luminous, oh, heroine of mine
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Ladies
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Oh, ladies
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My ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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You raised yourself from mud and spit and opened up your eyes
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Stretching out your graceful limbs, from heart and soul on fire
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From sidewalks and handlebars, summer sun and evening stars
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And unincorporated streets, oh, heroine I long to meet
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Ladies
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Oh, ladies
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My ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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La-dies, la-dies, la-dies, la-a-dies
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You set aside your trays and flowers, like a ball and chain
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You understood a time and place upon which you proclaimed
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Your skirt was not to hide behind, your womanhood, no alibi
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You would not live so man could die, oh, white-gloved heroine of mine
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Ladies
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Oh, ladies
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My ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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My fair and tender ladies
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