The Hold Steady – Little Hoodrat Friend (Guitar)

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Your little hoodrat friend makes me sick

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But after I get sick I just get sad

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'Cause it burns being broke, Hurts to be heartbroken,

    Em                          F   C
And always being both must be a drag

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She's been calling me again

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She's been calling me again

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Your little hoodrat friend's been calling me again

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And I can't stand all the things that she sticks into her skin

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Like sharpened ballpoint pens and steel guitar strings

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She says it hurts, but it's worth it

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Tiny little text etched into her neck

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It said "Jesus lived and died for all your sins"

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She's got blue black ink and it's scratched into her lower back

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Says, Damn right, I'll rise again.  Yeah, damn right she'll rise again

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                   Yeah, damn right she'll rise again!

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And I've been dusted in the dark up in Penetration Park, and I've been plastered

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I've been shaking hard and searching in a dirty storefront church, and I've been plowed

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But I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

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I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

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I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

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What makes you think I'm getting with your little hoodrat friend?

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Your little hoodrat friend got me high though

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When we were 17 and stuck up, up in Osseo

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She said, it's funny how true love gets troubled by still water

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And washed up in the Mississippi River

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Her claddagh ring was pointed at the people

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She said, "St. Theresa came to me in dreams"

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She said, "I ain't gonna do anything sexual with you

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I'm kinda saving myself for the scene"

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And I've been dusted in the dark up in Penetration Park, and I've been plastered

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I've been shaking hard and searching in a dirty storefront church, and I've been plowed

G                                D
But I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

F                            C
I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

G                            D
I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

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What makes you think I'm getting with your little hoodrat friend?

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And she said city center used to be the center of our scene

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Now city center's over, no one really goes there

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And then we used to drink beneath this railroad bridge

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Some nights the bus wouldn't even stop, there was just too many kids

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I was waiting for my ride and I got jumped from behind, I got punctured

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I got stopped by the cops and they found it in my socks, And I got probed

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But I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

F                            C
I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

G                            D
I ain't never been with your little hoodrat friend

F                                          C
What makes you think I'm getting with your little hoodrat friend?