West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown chords by Jimmy Buffett

West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown
Jimmy Buffett
Living and Dying in 3/4 Time
1974

[intro]

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Standing on the side of the Highway 4 exit
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A lady in tie-dye, a bag by her side
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Not really looking like anything special
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Saw Tennessee tags and she waved for a ride

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Sat right beside me as the meter hit sixty
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Explaining her travels and her family background
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When she got through, I could not help but thinking
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She's a long way from the West Nashville Grand Ballroom gown

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Her father had money and her mother had love
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Channeled entirely to her dear sister Dove
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Twenty-two years in society's plan
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Was cancelled with a swing of her dear mother's hand

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Six hours later, we hit Cincinnati
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Yawning she woke and then asked where we were
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When she found out, she said, "I must be going"
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This close to Nashville was too close for her

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So I stopped by the roadside and I gave her five dollars
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She took it then kissed me and gave me a note
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She told me just to read it then mail it in Nashville
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On old looseleaf paper to her mother she wrote

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She said, "Mama, I'm fine, if you happen to wonder
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I don't have much money but I still get around
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I haven't made church in near thirty-six Sundays
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So fuck all those West Nashville Grand Ballroom gowns"

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Yeah, she's a long way from the West Nashville Grand Ballroom gown


02 March 2016
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