Tonart: E major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
at the only joint in town
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She had a reputation as a
girl who'd been around
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On main street after midnight,
a brand new pack of cigs
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A fresh one hanging from her lips,
a beer between her legs
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She rides down to the river,
and meets with all her friends
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The road goes on forever
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and the party never ends
Verse 2
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Sonny was a loner,
older than the rest
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He was goin' in the navy,
but couldn't pass the test
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So he hung around town,
he sold a little pot
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The law caught wind of sonny
and one day he got caught
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But he was back in business
when they set him free again
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The road goes on forever and
the party never ends
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Verse 3
Sonny's playin' eight-ball in in the joint
where sherry works
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When some drunken out-of-towner put put
put his hand up sherry's skirt
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Sonny took his pool cue,
laid the drunk out on the floor
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Stuffed a dollar in her tip jar,
walked out the door
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She's running right behind him,
reaching for his hand
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The road goes on forever
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and the party never ends
Verse 4
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They jumped into his pickup,
sonny jammed it down in gear
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Sonny looked at sherry,
said "let's get on out of here
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The stars were high above them,
the moon was in the east
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The sun was setting on them when
they reached miami beach
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They got a hotel by the water,
a quart of bombay gin
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The road goes on forever
and the party never ends
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Verse 5
They soon ran out of money,
but sonny knew a man
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Who knew some cuban refugees,
who dealt in contraband
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Sonny met the cubans in a house
just off the route
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With a briefcase full of money
and a pistol in his boot
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The card were on the table
when the law came bustin' in
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The road goes on forever
and the party never ends
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The
Verse 6
cubans grabbed the goodies,
sonny grabbed the jack
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Broke the bathroom window
and climbed on out the back
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Sherry drove the pickup through the
alley on the side
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Where a lawman tackled sonny and was
reading him his rights
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She stepped out in the alley
with a single shot 410
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The road goes on forever
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and the party never ends
Verse 7
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They left the lawman lying,
they made their getaway
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Got back to the motel just before
the break of day
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Sonny gave her all the money,
he blew a little kiss
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If they ask you how this happened
say I forced you into this
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She watched him as his taillights
disappeared around the bend
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The road goes on forever
and the party never ends
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Verse 8
It's main street after midnight,
just like it was before
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Twenty-one months months later,
at the local grocery store
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Sherry buys a paper and a cold
six-pack of of beer
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The headlines say that sonny
is going to the chair
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She pulls back onto main street
in her new mercedes benz
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The road goes on forever
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and the party never ends
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