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  She lived on the curve in the road, in an old tar-paper shack
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  On the south side of the town on know wrong side of the tracks
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Sometimes on the way into town we'd say Mama, can we stop and give her a ride?'
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  Sometimes we did, but her hands flew from her side
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Wild eyed, crazy Mary

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  Down a long dirty road, past the Parson's place
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  That old blue car we used to race
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 Little country store with a sign tacked to the side
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Said 'No L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G Allowed'

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  Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd
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  Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Bm                         A   G               A
  Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Bm                         A   G               A  Bm
  Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

Bm
  One night thunder cracked, mercy backed outside her windowsill
E
  Dreamed I was flying high above the trees, over the hills
B
  Looked down into the house of Mary
F#               E
  A bare bulb on, newspaper-covered walls
B
  And Mary rising up above it all

B    E
Ohhh Ohhh
B    E
Ohhh Ohhh
B
Oooohhhhhh
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Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh

Bm
  Next morning on the way into town
G
  Saw some skid marks and followed them around
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  Over the curve, through the fields, into the house of Mary
               A                        G
That what you fear the most, could meet you halfway
               A                        G
That what you fear the most, could meet you halfway
Bm                         A   G               A
  Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Bm                         A   G               A
  Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around
Bm                         A   G               A
  Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around

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