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Mineral Wells
by:  Tom Russell
written by:  Tom Russell - Frontera Music

(capo 3rd fret)

Intro:
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She was livin' in a cadillac
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Bedded down in the back seat
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On a back street of the Hollywood hills
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With a shoebox museum of memories
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Old photos and medical bills
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She'd been a great actress in two dozen movies
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Played Shakespeare on the great London stage
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Before the three husbands, six kids and bad breaks
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Of fifty-eight odd years of age

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Him they called fat boy wore grey overalls
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And he clocked in at four hundred pounds
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With a passion for food and film magazines
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He'd been a great critic downtown
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He'd seen all her movies, worshipped her face
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Heard her story and took her on in
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Though she bore no resemblance to the star he adored
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The film's over before real life begins

Chorus:

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She told him of a fountain of youth
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In the hot Texas earth
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It'll heal and renew us
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It's somewhere west of Fort Worth
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And she met Errol Flynn there
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In the Crazy Water Hotel
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And they danced down the street
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                        CC Piano Chord 

In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells

G  (alternate between |320003| and |302003|)

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So they boarded a greyhound in search of the fountain
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Fat boy and the aging film queen
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Through the Great Painted Desert and all across Texas
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Amarillo plain to Abilene
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They got off in Fort Worth for a fresh cup of coffee
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Caught the local to old Mineral Wells
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And it dropped them in front of that boarded up palace
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Called the Crazy Water Hotel

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Disillusioned they found a cheap room off the highway
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Drank vodka from a styrofoam cup
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There'd be no healing return to the past
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The fountain of youth had dried up
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So the critic and the film star held hands and drank vodka
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As the great Texas sun rose and fell
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And drunk but still dreaming they waltzed down the street
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells

Repeat Chorus

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They danced down the street
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     DD Piano Chord 
                        GG Piano Chord 
     CC Piano Chord 
  GG Piano Chord 
  DD Piano Chord 
  GG Piano Chord 

In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells


Live duet with Katy Moffatt
Transcribed by Greg Yuriy