House Of Negotiable Affection chords by Zona Jones

Chords with lyrics

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The House stood on the outskirts of an old ghost town
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I brushed aside the cobwebs, walked in and looked around.
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I found a dusty diary, beside a worn out bed.
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Dated eighteen eighty two and this is what it said.



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This town has seven blacksmiths, twenty five saloons
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Thirty seven churches and two hundred hotel rooms.
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More longhorn Texas cattle than I have ever seen
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and the finest little cathouse this side of New Orleans.
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In the house of negotiable affections.
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Every cowboy is as special as the next one.
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All the ladies are so lovely, with their painted on complexions.
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At the house of negotiable affections.
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From Kansas down to Texas is a long and tiresome course
And a cowbow needs more comfort than a sidekick and a horse.
So he'll climb that spiral staircase to a dim lit little room.
Where he'll touch those red silk stockings and smell that sweet perfume.

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In the house of negotiable affections.
There's Kansans and Nebraskans and there's Texans
Looking up at the ceiling, laughing at their own reflections.
In the house of negotiable affections.

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I closed that dusty diary and laid it on the shelf.
Then all at once the bedsprings started squeaking by themselves.
And I saw her ghostly figure I nearly died of fright
She said for half a dollar you can stay with me tonight.

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In the house of negotiable affections.
She was wearing nothing but a pale complexion.
I guess you might say I made a spiritual connection
In the house of negotiable affections.

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There's a few old cowboy bones, but mostly ghostly apparitions.
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In the house of negotiable affections.