Doc Watson – Give Me Back My 15 Cents (Guitar)

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left my home in Tennessee,

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Thought I'd learn to travel,

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But then I met a pretty little girl

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And soon we played the devil

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I loved that gal and she loved me

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And I thought we'd live together

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But then we tied that fatal knot

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And now I'm gone forever 

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Gimme back my fifteen cents,

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Gimme back my money;

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Gimme back my fifteen cents

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And I'll go home to Mammy 

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Twas fifteen cents for the preacher man

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A dollar for the paper,

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Then dear old mother-in-law moved in

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And, Lordy, what a caper!

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Gimme back my fifteen cents,

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Gimme back my money;

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Gimme back my fifteen cents

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And I'll go home to Mammy 

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I fiddled a tune for her one day

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And she called me a joker

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Then that old sow got mad at me

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And hit me with a poker 

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I worked in town and I worked on the farm,

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But there's no way To suit 'em 

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They're both so dad-burn mean t'me

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Somebody oughta shoot'em 

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I'm tired of looking at my mother-in-law

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I'd like t'see m'Granny,

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Gonna leave the state of Arkansas

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And go back home t'Mammy!