Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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She's sixty- one years old
and hiding in a school bus
Kind of objectionable
Interlude 1
With a heart like a fist
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Verse 2
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She stood on a street in Norfork in a
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pea- coat and a headache
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watching the traffic splash by
When a four day clown in a pick- up
truck drove her out to the woods
Down a gravel lane, down a dirt road,
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down some dust on the grass
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To a shadow,
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with some bricks around it
Verse 3
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Near a pecan tree, near a boulder,
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near a dog, near invisible
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He dobbed his hat and scuffed his heel
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And puffed real hard on his
cheap cigar
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And he spewed the smoke
out in the air
And asked her if that
Verse 4
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He laughed real loud and said she
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was cute
And then he leaned over
and said "excuse me"
And put the cigar out
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in the dog's face
Verse 5
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Back up the dust on the grass,
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back up the gravel lane
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And back to Norfolk
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Interlude 2
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Back there at his place late at
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night,
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when the owls congregate
And the snakes sleep,
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when the trucks hit the spacers in the overpass
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And the storm drains cough
up dust and cigarette filters
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purge like frogs at the
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Back there, down the gravel lane, down the
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dirt road
Down some dust on the grass,
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past the pecan tree to the shadow
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With some bricks around it
Verse 8
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Back there, late at night, back
there in the dark
Back there in the dust, back there
Interlude 3
The dog burst into flame
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Verse 9
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anyhow snap crackers and stone soup
to where the dog blew up
She tried her luck, she went back,
maybe she could paint the porch
Maybe she could fix the roof,
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maybe she could build a roof
Verse 10
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She told him "you can't smoke cigars,
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though, I'm too damn frail"
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And he said "I won't"
Then he lit a cigarette and
Outro 1
He said, "It's OK, I have a cat
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