The Most Dangerous Woman In America chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
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Verse:
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Three weeks out of prison, he drives the cold Missouri night
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There's strip malls and abandoned mines out on the left and the right
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He drives into Mount Olive and the Becker Funeral Home
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Where his daddy's lying with a cold hard stare, black lung and broken bones

Chorus:
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The most dangerous woman in America
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Is buried on the edge of town
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Hey, look out Ma, another miner's going down

Verse:
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Well, it's darker than a dungeon down in those abandoned mines
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He's drunk in the house of knowledge, plays Sixteen Tonnes a thousand times
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It's colder than a witch's tit when the wind blows through these streets
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Old mining men at the Legion Bar, they're staring at their feet

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The most dangerous woman in America
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Is buried on the edge of town
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Hey, look out Ma, another miner's going down

Verse:
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Well, the wind blows through the empty rooms of a corporation barn
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There's a little blue man on the kitchen floor, shooting sparks into his arm
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There's a three-car funeral rolling by, out on the county line
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"Bye-bye Daddy, you're heaven bound, but right now, so am I"

Chorus:
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The most dangerous woman in America
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Is buried on the edge of town
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Next to the grave where they lay his daddy down

Bridge:
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And that night in the house of knowledge, he buys him a thirty-eight
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And drives out to the discount liquor store on the interstate
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The most dangerous woman in America has a tear froze in her eye
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For the sons and daughters of mining men who've lost their way tonight

Bridge:
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Verse:
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Well, bullets fly and one man dies and one drives off alone
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To the cemetery at midnight and the grave of Mother Jones
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He whispers low his daddy's name then, "Mother, I've come to pray and pay
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For all you've done for the mining men, back in the violent day

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The most dangerous woman in America
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Smiles deep in the frozen ground
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And there's sirens coming through a dead-end mining town

Chorus:
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The most dangerous woman in America
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Is buried on the edge of town
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Hey, look out Ma, another man is going down