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The Girl I Almost Married
by Joey Harris

The Beat Farmers, "Poor And Famous", Curb Records, 1987

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Drunk again out on the front lawn
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Her dress pulled up and the moon is shinin'
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I swear that girl's drunk up all of my tequila
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I guess I better get her 'fore the trash man finds her, yeah

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Long past when I'm dead and buried
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She'll still be bangin' around
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The girl I almost married

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Met her in a bar when she was nineteen
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I was twenty-nine goin' on sixty-five
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Said she knew a better way to get my kicks
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Now I'm stuck with her till the day I die, oh yeah

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Long past when I'm dead and buried
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She'll still be bangin' around
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The girl I almost married

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And though I know she'll probably kill me
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I know I'd die if she weren't with me

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This little girl's got the soul of an old man
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She says life is short you gotta grab it with both hands
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And if by chance we happen to go over
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We spend all week in bed with the sweetest hangover, yeah

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Long past when I'm dead and buried
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She'll still be bangin' around
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The girl I almost married