Tom T. Hall – The Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time (Guitar)

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Track 3 of 11 on the album "I Wrote A Song About It" (1975) [Intro] G D7 G [Verse 1]
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The girl from West Virginia read the same book all the time

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At first, I thought perhaps she wasn't settled in her mind

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She'd read it front to back and then she'd read it over again

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She knew that I knew she knew what happened in the end
[Verse 2]
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She would go to work each morning, that's the book that she would take

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She'd read it on her lunch hour and she'd read it on her break

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Her calm expression never changed from page to page to page

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You know, the story never changed from day to day to day
[Chorus 1]
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Some people said it was a book about a love affair

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That grew and grew throughout the years and never knew a care

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A book wherein the people loved and dreams all turned out right

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They say she even took the book to bed with her at night
[Interlude] G D7 G [Verse 3]
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I recall the tattered pages and the cover faded out

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Of a walking windblown woman by some old majestic house

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One day, I even asked her why she did that and she said

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"Mister Hall, this is the best book I have ever read"
[Chorus 2]
     D7
Some people say it was a book about a great romance

    D7
She picked it up the night she didn't make the high school dance

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Ain't it strange what life can sometimes do to people's minds

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Like the girl in West Virginia who reads the same book all the time