Queen Maybelline chords by The Band Perry

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Maybelline just turned fourteen didn’t get no birthday cake

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Case 9173, she’s a custody of the state

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She tells everybody she looks like her mama

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‘Cause she???s never seen her daddy’s eyes

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Just a throw away baby from the 1980s

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Another unwanted child yeah, Yeah


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Maybelline wears a turquoise ring that was found in her personal file

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She assumes it was left as a clue that she might some day find

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An aunt living in New Mexico or an uncle out in L.A.

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She knows they’re out there somewhere ‘cause she sees them every day


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When she flies out of her mind

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To a beautiful place with sunny skies

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She???s free when she dreams

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She’s Queen Maybelline


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Maybelline’s got a polaroid of all the different families

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The Howser’s, Gimmon???s, Nicholson’s, another short term memory

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She never winds up anywhere that they don’t ask her to leave

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An invisible girl in a cruel, cruel world, still can’t find some peace


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When she flies out of her mind

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To a beautiful place with sunny skies

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She???s free when she dreams

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She’s Queen Maybelline


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She knows God don’t make mistakes

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She believes there’ll come a day

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When she’ll finally find her place yeah, yeah,   yeah yeah


          Am     G          Am     G
When she flies out of her mind

      Am           G            Am       G
To a beautiful place with sunny skies

      Am    G    Am           G
She???s free when she dreams

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She’s Queen Maybelline

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Free when she dreams

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She’s Queen Maybelline

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Free when she dreams

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She’s Queen Maybelline

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A little Maybelline, a little Maybelline,  yeah

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