Jerry Jeff Walker – The Continuing Saga Of The Classic Bummer (Guitar)

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I guess it all started, the day my brand new car wouldn't

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So I took it to this dealer Recommended as a good'un

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He told me four hundred bucks would fix it

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So I asked about the guarantee

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He just smiled and he told me

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Slim that ran out last week

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I been taken again , I've been taken again

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Its like playing the blues

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If your snoozing you lose

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You'll be taken again

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I drove to this bar, outside of Colorado Springs

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Gonna drink a case of cold Coors

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Hear old Merle Haggard sing

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They had this antlered rabbit on the wall

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Spiked horns and ears a foot tall

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The bartender told me it was a Colorado jackalope

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I been taken again , I've been taken again

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Its like playing the blues

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If your snoozing you lose

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You'll be taken again

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Well later I took home, This old nymphomaniac

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But I could not get her to lie upon her back

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She told me something in my eyes had made her realize

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That she could never do that lustful thing with me

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I been taken again , I've been taken again

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Its like playing the blues

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If your snoozing you lose

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You'll be taken again

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Now people buy the records, think we're working so hard

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We're out in the studios, and its five o'clock

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They're hanging on every word, waiting on the very next verse

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Think things are getting better from here

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But I think they're getting worse

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I been taken again , I've been taken again

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Its like playing the blues

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If your snoozing you lose

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You'll be taken again

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Thank God you don't have to hear, the take after this