The Milk Carton Kids – Girls Gather Round (Guitar)

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"Don't you let the lessons stop, time ain't just hands on a clock"

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That's what I'm gonna tell Pop when I leave

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A vision on the lonely road, it's something that I gotta know:

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If I can drive this car all on my own

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I guess I'll leave my girl behind, I should have done that long ago

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Sometime I'm sure the pain will go away

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It wasn't working anyhow, the burners on the stove burnt out

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A shame I didn't figure it out before

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Girls, gather round and let that long hair down

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Sing along with me before I go

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Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the

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Things that we ain't never gonna know

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I met a man in San Francisco, he told me he did the same thing

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Fifty years ago, he left his girl behind

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He sits there in the park, one hand is strumming his guitar

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Songs he found inside a bottle of wine

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I saw the same things on his face, the ones that made me race away from

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everything I'd ever really known

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The scare to take responsibility from here -and put her there-

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Where everyone can see the seeds you've sown

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Girls, gather round and let that long hair down

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Sing along with me before I go

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Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the

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Things that we ain't never gonna know

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Girls, gather round and let that long hair down

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Sing along with me before I go

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Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the

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Things that we ain't never gonna know

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You know my line Joe?

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If you think about the creature that you might have thought would teach you

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That our hearts are just the thing right from the start

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It would keep us from the worries, safe from sound and safe from fury,

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Safe at home besides the ones we know we loved

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If you told me from the start that I could never be apart from her,

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I'd tell you, "go to hell, get out of my way"

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But I've come back with my tail between my legs I didn't know the way

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A man can't be a man all on his own

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Girls, gather round and let that long hair down

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Sing along with me before I go

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Let us have a drink and by god, don't let us think about the

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Things that we ain't never gonna know

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The sun is going down on this lonesome town

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But I got you here to keep my company

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You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?

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For that reason I won't ever let you go

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You ever had the feeling that we're living for a reason?

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For that reason I won't ever let you go

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For that reason I won't ever let you go

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For that reason I won't ever let you go

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    For that reason I won't ever let you go