Intro
G#m F#m
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She hides in the attic concealed on a shelf
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Behind volumes of literature based on herself
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And runs across the pages like some tiny elf
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Knowing that it's hard to find
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Stuff way back in her mind
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Winds up spending all of her time
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Trying to memorize every line
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Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine
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Sweet lady of death wants me to die
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So she can come sit by my bedside and sigh
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And wipe away the tears from all my friends eyes
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And then softly she will explain
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Just exactly who was to blame
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For causing me to go insane
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And finally blow out my brains
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Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine
bridge
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Well you know that it's a shame and a pity
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You were raised up in the city
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And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways ah 'bout country ways
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The joy of life she dresses in black
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With celestial secrets engraved in her back
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And her face keeps flashing that she's got the knack
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But you know when you look into her eyes
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All she's learned she's had to memorize
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And the only way you'll ever get her high
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Is to let her do her thing and then watch you die
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Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine
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Now she's the one who gives us all those magical things
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And reads us stories out of the I Ching
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Then she passes out a whole new basket of rings
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That when you put on your hand
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Makes you one of the Angel Band
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And gives you the power to be a man
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But what it does for her you never quite understand
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Sweet Lorraine ah sweet Lorraine
outro
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Well you know that it's a shame and a pity
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You were raised up in the city
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And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways
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Oh 'bout country ways oh 'bout country ways
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Yeah, about country ways oh country ways ...