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***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
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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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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells
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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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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells