Tom: Eb major
Verse 1
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Betty lit a
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ci garette today
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Ancient fumbling fin
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gers in her way
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From a forty year old coffee cup
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she sipped a bit of gin
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Closed her eyes and let the memories in
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She lives in the old place
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all alone
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Keeps in touch with neigh
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bors by the phone
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Grows roses on the graves
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of her firstborn and his father
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An d the coal trucks
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Oh, Lydia, him go, the boy is gone
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Her mother struggled
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as she tore him from her arms
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Oh, Lydia,
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your tears are heaven's rain
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But she never was the same
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A cotton dress and satin shoes
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In dian summer sun dressed
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in amber hues
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Spending time with
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a coal miner's son
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To an old -time fiddle tune
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Months flew by just like
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a breeze that year
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Late weddin' June
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and by the fall a boy was here
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Word come down from Big Stone
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there's a fire in the mine
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An d eleven men
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Oh, Liddy, let him go, the boy is gone
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Her mother struggled
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as she tore him from her arms
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Oh, Liddy, aye,
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her tears her heavens rang
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But she never was the same
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She watched them pull
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The overalls he wore
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were blackened by the smoke
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Liddy twice had had this dream
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and twice it had come true
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And when she saw his
she knew
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Oh, Liddy, let him go,
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the boy is gone
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Her mother's troubled
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as she tore him from her arms
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Oh, Lydia,
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your tears are heaven's rain
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But she never was the same
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Lydie lit a ci garette to take
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Ancient fumbling fingers
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in her wake
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From a 40 -year -old coffee cup
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she sipped a bit of gin
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Closed her eyes and let the memories in
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