Tom T. Hall – The Little Lady Preacher (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]

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Oh the little lady preacher from the

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Limestone

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Church

I'll never forget her I

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guess

She

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preached each Sunday morning on

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the local rad

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io

With a big black Bible and

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a snow white

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dress

[Verse 2]

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She was

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nineteen years of age and was

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developed to a fault

But I will admit she knew the Bible

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well

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little white lace hankie marked the

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text that she would use

She´d breathe into that microphone and

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send us all to

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hell

[Verse 3]

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She had a guitar picker by the

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name of Luther

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Short

A hairy legged soul lost out in

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sin

She would

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turn and smile at Luther when the

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program would

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commence

With a voice as sweet as angels' she would

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break out in a

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hymn

[Verse 4]

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I was

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picking for her too with what we

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called the doghouse bass

I clung to every word that passed her

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lips

She

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was down on booze and cigarettes and

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high on days to come

And she'd punctuate the prophecy with

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movements of her

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hips

[Verse 5]

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The Lord knows how I loved her he was

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there each time she

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preached

But old Luther took her home each Sunday

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morn

Looking

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back I still recall the way it

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hurt my tender

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pride

I longed to be a hero but they're

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made not

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born

[Verse 6]

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Some

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times old Luther showed up at the

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studio half tight

And smoking was a thing he liked to

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do

She

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never said a word to him but

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said a prayer for me

I told her in a way that I've been

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praying for her

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too

[Verse 7]

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One Sunday her old man showed up and

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said that she was

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gone

Said she and brother Luther had a

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call

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can see me standing in that

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studio that

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day

I had to face the heartbreak unem

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ployment and

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all

[Verse 8]

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I

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don't know where they are cause I

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ain't seen them people since

Lord if I judge 'em let me give 'em lots of

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room

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know Luther Short and he's a

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hard old boy to change

And I've often sat and wondered who it

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was converted

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who