Tom T. Hall – Ramonas Revenge (Guitar)

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Ramona lived just down the hill from us

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She kept the house, her mother drove the bus (an old yellow school bus)

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Ramona had a handicap the neighborhood knew well

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Ramona couldn't speak or couldn't spell

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(Which put Ramona at a considerable disadvantage among the more fluent)

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Although she couldn't write and couldn't talk

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Ramona really had a pretty walk (a four-letter figure)

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Because she couldn't write or speak, nobody asked her out

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But Bad Eye Thompson hung around the house

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(He was what you might say a familiar figure in the neighborhood)

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I guess their handicaps were common ground

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For Bad Eye Thompson always hung around

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He could squint that eye and spit tobacco thirty feet

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Ramona always grinned and stomped her feet

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(Because Ramona considered that to be one of the better local acts)

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One day, Ramona found herself a child

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She couldn't speak, her mom was going wild

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Confusion reigned for half a day, as one could understand

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The county judge came down to take a hand

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(And I think it should be noted here, in the interest of justice

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that the judge was acting in a strictly unofficial capacity)

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The neighbors gathered 'round Ramona's porch

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The judge said, "Understand this is not a court".

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Ramona stood as all the breathless neighbors gathered 'round

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(And it's a familiar old saying that "birds of a feather will flock together"

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And justice will be done, that's right)