Sundown Mary

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G7

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I first met Sundown Mary a year ago today

G7

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Traveling the same road I was going the other way

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D7

G7

We talked and then she said you might be nice to have around

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G7

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If you don’t mind a laying your head wherever the sun goes down

G7

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I’ve always been a loner never had no one before

G7

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But with every town we passed through I loved her a little more

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D7

G7

And one night when I kissed her I thought she felt the same

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G7

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But then the spell was broken by the whistle of a train

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What have you heard from Sundown Mary what has she done today

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D7

G7

Is she eating her food from the silver spoon and off of the golden plate

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G7

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Is she in the chips in Texas or stranded broke in Maine

G7

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Do you know if Sundown Mary ever speaks my name

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Ever speaks my name

G7

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We hopped a train to Baton Rouge the trip took several days

G7

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I had no idea that she thought of going separate ways

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D7

G7

There in the crowded station she softly spoke my name

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G7

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And said it’s time to leave you cause I come and go like rain

G7

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There’s not much left of what you’d call the man I used to be

G7

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For in her place an empty space haunts my memory

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D7

G7

Always broke and lonely I age a year a day

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G7

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And when I get to drinking nights there’s just one thing I say

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