Tom: G
Introdução:
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It doesn't start it just begins
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With a gun and a liquor store
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Like every thief I know I can't win
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Just don't know when or where
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I pulled a job in Tennessee
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A little bank with a big score
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Shot a guy who didn't believe, he never had a prayer
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If I get caught, I don't mind
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I stole the money, nearly lost my mind
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I can't take back the things I did
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You can play the game but you can't win
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Me and my wife, Barbara Jean went on a spree in Nevada
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Man she could drive, she could go like the breeze
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She got us outta there
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Headed south to New Orleans, she couldn't live like an outlaw
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Said goodbye on a tropical beach, sun in her pretty hair
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If I get caught, I don't mind
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I stole the money, nearly lost my mind
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I can't take back the things I did
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You can play the game but you can't win
Instrumental (like a verse)
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Prisons are built with stones of law
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Brothels with bricks of religion
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I've been in both and I know that I saw
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God answer a sinner's prayers
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We played a game we couldn't win to the end to the utmost
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We took a chance, threw caution to the wind,
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We simply didn't care
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If I get caught, I don't mind
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I stole the money, nearly lost my mind
C D Em
I can't take back the things I did
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You can play the game but you can't win
C D G
You can play the game but you can't win