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T for Texas |
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T for Tennessee (repeat) |
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T for Thelma that gal that made a wreck out of me. (yodel) (Second verse) |
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If you don't want me, mamma, you don't have to call (repeat)' |
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Cause I can get more women than a passenger train can haul.(yodel) (Third verse) |
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I'm gonna buy me a pistol just as long as |
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I am tall (repeat) |
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I'm gonna shoot poor |
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Thelma just to see her jump and fall. (yodel) |
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I'm goin' where the water drinks like cherry wine (repeat) ' |
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Cause that |
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Georgia water tastes like turpintine. (yodel) (fourth verse) |
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I'm goin' to buy me a shotgun with a big long shiny barrel (repeat) |
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I'm goin' to shoot that lyin' dog that stole away my gal.(yodel) (fifth verse) |
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Rather drink muddy water, sleep in a hollow log (repeat) |
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Than to be in |
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Atlanta-treated like a dirty dog. (yodel) |
