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She used to come over to my house, |
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She only lived a few miles away |
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I never knew why but my mama said |
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If she wanted to she could stay |
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A pretty little girl who fought like a boy, |
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But she wanted to hold my hand |
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And the little blue dress that she always wore, |
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Yeah it might have been her only friend |
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. |
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I remember that summer like yesterday |
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She used to hang around all the time |
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Down by the creek we would always play |
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And tell secrets by the porch light |
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Shy as a bird and timid as a flower, |
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I wonder where she grew up |
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I never really thought that much about it, |
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But everybody said her daddy was the town drunk |
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. |
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Broken like a bottle, |
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Running from the only home she ever had, |
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Tangled in the talk behind her back |
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Yeah he thought she was nothing, |
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Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks |
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How could anyone not love a girl like that |
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. |
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One afternoon in the middle of town |
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I saw her daddy sleeping on a bench |
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So I walked up and introduced myself |
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And said his daughter was my best friend |
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He looked at me like he didn't care |
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And asked me for a couple of bucks |
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Right then I decided that I'd look after |
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That pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk |
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. |
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Broken like a bottle, |
| [02:14.90] |
Running from the only home she ever had, |
| [02:20.21] |
Tangled in the talk behind her back |
| [02:25.40] |
Yeah he thought she was nothing, |
| [02:28.17] |
Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks |
| [02:34.92] |
How could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like that |
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. |
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Broken like a bottle, |
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Running from the only home she ever had, |
| [02:58.08] |
Tangled in the talk behind her back |
| [03:03.21] |
Yeah he thought she was nothing, |
| [03:06.15] |
Growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks |
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How could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like that |
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. |
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Several years later I read in the paper |
| [03:31.59] |
That her daddy had passed away |
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I was holding her hand, she had the baby in the other |
| [03:37.96] |
And there was really nothing I could say |
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She looked at me and I gave her a kiss |
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All that mattered was the three of us |
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Nobody thought it would all work out |
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For that pretty little girl |
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Whose daddy was the town drunk |
