Patty Griffin – Kiss Of A Man (Guitar)

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The strangers came

A
The strangers went

      D
To my daddy's bar

D
The floor was cement

    E
And wet all the time

E
It never got dry

  D
Nothing but the smell

   A
Of old beer and rye

A
Mom and daddy and me

A
We lived in the back

         D
The door wasn't

D
But twenty-five feet from the tracks

        E
And the trains would roll by

E
All day and all night

D
Rattle them bottles

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And shake all them lights

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And the strangers would come and the strangers would go

E                 D
Talking too fast, walking real slow

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Sometimes they'd say, hey, pretty girl what's your name?

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Why don't you come here and be pretty for us?

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Then my daddy would make like he'd reach for his gun

    D
And those boys would shake or hush up and run

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Some of those boys

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I noticed them too

D
Looking at me

D
But there was nothing to do

     E
When daddy stood watch

E
Big, mean and sober

       D
Like a wall so tall

             A
No one could get over

D                  A
Sometimes at night under the sheets

    E                    D
I'd cover myself from my head to my feet

                          A
And wait till my mama and daddy went to sleep

           E
And though I was awake, dream a dream so sweet

        A
Dream a dream so sweet though I was awake

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Dream a dream so sweet, though I was awake

        D
Dream a dream so sweet all of me ached

         A                       E
Close my eyes and pretend on the back of my hand

     D
What it would be like

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The kiss of a man