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Not a hot cup of coffee, nor a cold glass of tea |
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Ever crossed your lips in my company |
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Straight bourbon whiskey was all we'd abide |
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So let's don't hold back now we've got nothing to hide |
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So much we savored yet so much we missed |
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You know I never meant you |
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To see me like this |
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Just a faint distant flicker from |
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The last of the storm |
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You know a taste of that liquor |
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Could do me no harm |
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(chorus) |
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Light me a candle. Light me a fire. |
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We'll sit by the window with the shades drawn |
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To the best of intentions and the worst of desires |
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We'll leave by the Gulf Road in the grey dawn |
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Take a short handled shovel |
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Take a long handled hoe |
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Cover my bones when the west wind blows |
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Smooth it off even, pack it down hard |
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I'll no more be here but I'll never be far |
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I'll no more be here but I'll never be far |
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