Gino Vannelli – Long Arm Of Justice (Guitar)

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It was a hot summer night along the Ouachita

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Where, in a town named Mammoth

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 Hill

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A boy was found dead, Times Picayne said

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Left headlines past the cotton gin mill

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John Law was , so the rogue ran free

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From the swamps of Louisiana, to the the hills of Tennessee.

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Then on to Caro lines' where he brought hard times

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To many a fami-

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 ly

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Now Otis Ray Stone were nobody's fool

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He had the look of a righteious

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 man

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By day he plied his trade as a teacher

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While by night getting blood on his  hands

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For thirty five years running high on the loose

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Two steps ahead of the hangman's noose

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Indeed, it seem that Otis Ray Stone would never atone

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For what he done to many a poor

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 youth

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Yet the long arm of justice reaches    for

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From the banks of Oua chita          to the hightest     star

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Like the hour hand on the wall

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Like a snail creeping at a dead crawl

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One fine day in some mysterious way

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Justice finds us

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 all        he-e-e-ey   ya                                  It finds us

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 all.

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Many years hence on a Death Valley road

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While jackin up his broke down car

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Come   hell on wheels that left Otis Ray

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Lyin' flat on the burnin'

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 tar

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For three long days, not a drop on his tongue

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Suffering every crawler 'neath the desert sun

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And Old Otis  Ray screamed while a crow picked his eyes clean

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Be fore his dying was

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 do-o-o-o-one

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Yet the long arm of justice reaches for            ^    ^^     ^  ^^

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From the banks of Oua chita            to the high test star

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Like the hour hand on the wall

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Like a snail creeping at a dead crawl

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One fine day in some mysterious way

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Justice finds us

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all.

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Now, the mortal remains of Otis Ray Stone

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Were never made mani

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 fest

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For what a crow had done to both his eyes

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Ten buzzards did the rest.

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All that was, was a blot on the land

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A heap o' gray dust in the shape of a man.

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And the last of Otis Ray was finally swept away

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By the  blowing

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 sa-a-nd.