Tonart: Bb minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I was just thirty-four years years old
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and I was still wandering in a haze
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I was wondering why everyone I met
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seemed like they were lost in a maze
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I don't know why I thought I should have
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some kind of divine right to the blues
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It's sympathy not tears people need
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when they're the front page, sad news
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away
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and the stench began to rise
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And lovers now estranged avoided
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catching each others' eyes
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cursed the men who fit the coil
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And men not fit for marriage
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took their refuge in the oil
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No one respects the flame quite like
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the fool who's badly burned
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From all this you'd imagine that there
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must be something learned
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Verse 4
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Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
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I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing
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older never hurts
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Jeanie never wears no knee pants
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Have to be so drunk to try a new dance
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So afraid of every new romance
Verse 6
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Slit skirts, slit skirt
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Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts,
slit skirt
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She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
slit skirt
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Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
Verse 7
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Why aren't we thinking up romance?
Why can't we drink it up
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Just need a brief new romance
Verse 8
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Let me tell you some more about myself,
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you know I'm sitting at home just now
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The big events of the day are passed and the
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late TV shows have come around
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I'm number one in the home
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team but I still feel unfulfilled
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A silent voice in her broken heart
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complaining that I'm unskilled
Verse 9
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And I know that when she thinks of me,
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she thinks of me as "him"
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But, unlike me, she don't work off
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her frustration in the gym
Verse 10
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Recriminations fester and the
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past can never change
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A woman's expectations run
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from both ends of the range
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Once she woke with untamed lovers'
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face between her legs
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Now he's cooled and stifled and it's
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she who has to beg
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Verse 11
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Jeanie never wears those slit skirts
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And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts
Can't pretend that growing
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older never hurts
Verse 12
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Jeanie never wears no knee pants
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We have to be so drunk to try a new dance
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So afraid of every new romance
Verse 13
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Slit skirts, slit skirt
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Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts,
slit skirt
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She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
slit skirt
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Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt
Verse 14
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Slit skirts, slit skirt
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Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts,
slit skirt
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She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts,
slit skirt
Wouldn't be seen dead
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in no slit skirt
Verse 15
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Why aren't we thinking up ro mance?
Why can't we drink it
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Just need a brief new
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romance
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