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Ask her why she cries so loud she will not say a word eyes like ice and hands that shake she takes what she deserves to celebrate her emptiness in a cold and lonely room sweep the floor with your long flowered dress if you cannot find a broom * She’s got hair that flows right down, right down to the backs of her knees her Papa he was a preaching man and the Lord is hard to please so she comes down from the Ozark Hills to these very streets to roam, with a banjo and a bible and a fine tooth comb

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but I know it's nobody's fault... don't know the reason that I stayed here all season, with nothing to show but this brand new tattoo but it's a real beauty,  a Mexican cutie how it got here I haven't a clue

She saw my comb over, her hourglass body she has problems with drinking milk and being school tardy she'll loan you her toothbrush she'll bar tend your party * kill me, kill me * I called and called, but I can't get through, said he's on his own, but his own is you

Yeah, my girlfriend takes me home when I'm too drunk to drive and she doesn't get all jealous when I hang out with the guys she laughs at my dumb jokes when no one does she brings me Mexican food from Sombrero's just because (Yeah, just because) * and my girlfriend likes U.L. and D.H.C. and she's so smart and independent, I don't think she needs me quite half as much as I know I need her I wonder why there's not another guy that she'd prefer and when I feel like giving up like my world is falling down I show up at 3am she's still up watching Vacation, and I see her pretty face it takes me away to a better place * and I know that everything,  know that everything... everything's gunna be fine

She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette she broke his heart, he spent his whole life tryin' to forget we watched him drink his pain away a little at a time but he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind

It seems like yesterday but it was long ago Janey was lovely, she was the queen of my nights there in the darkness with the radio playing low and  the secrets that we shared the mountains that we moved caught like a wildfire out of control till there was nothing left to burn and nothing left to prove * and I remember what she said to me, how she swore that it never would end I remember how she held me, oh so tight, wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then

I wear a ponytail like a waterfall loudspeaker or land slide I have a room key and a Johnny a good buzz,  feelin' all right pitch a tent, pop a top forget about what you ain't got see the sites, sleep till night stamp your feet, turn out the lights