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Tough Mama, meat shaking on your bones
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D Bm A
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I'm gonna take you down to the river and get you stoned.
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Bm A
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Papa's on the highway with that steel driving crew
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Bm F#m Em G
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Sister's in the big house her working days are through
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C G A
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Tough Mama, can I blow a little smoke on you?
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Dark Beauty, Won't you move it on over and make some room?
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It's my duty to bring you down to the field where the flowers bloom.
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Ashes in the furnace, dust on the rise,
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You came through it all the way, flyin' through the skies.
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Dark Beauty With that long night's journey in your eyes.
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Sweet Goddess, born of a blinding light and a changing wind,
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Now, don't be modest, you know who you are and where you've been.
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Jack the Cowboy went up north He's buried in your past.
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The Lone Wolf went out drinking That was over pretty fast.
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Sweet Goddess Your perfect stranger's comin' in at last.
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Silver Angel, with the badge of the lonesome road sewed in your sleeve,
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I'd be grateful if this golden ring you would receive. Today on the
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countryside it was a-hotter than a crotch, I stood alone upon the ridge
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and all I did was watch. Sweet Goddess It must be time to carve another
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notch.
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I'm crestfallen, the world of illusion is at my door,
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I ain't haulin' any of my lambs to the marketplace anymore.
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The prison walls are crumblin', there is no end in sight,
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I've gained some recognition but I lost my appetite.
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Dark Beauty Meet me at the border late tonight.
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Tough Mama
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