James Mcmurtry - Jackie Chords

[Intro]
 
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[Verse 1]
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Half a section in the short grass at the foot of the plains
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Grows broomweed in the dry times, ragweed when it rains
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It's all she's got left that the lawyers don't claim
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Jackie does her damn best, never one to complain
 
 
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She's been green breaking horses when she's home from the road
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Waiting on dispatch to find her a load
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She leased all but the trap, ponies can't graze a thing
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Another bobtail of coastal ought to last them 'til spring
 
 
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There were pitchers on the tables and kids running 'round
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Four generations of a blinking light town
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It was the Cotton Eyed Joe or maybe just the right glance
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She got to going with Randy at the Friday night dance
 
 
[Chorus]
 
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I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
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Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
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Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
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Life's just too crazy for that
 
 
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[Verse 2]
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Randy says not to worry, he'll feed while she's gone
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She's got the Freightliner idling half up on his lawn
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He don't like her driving when the northers come blue
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But if the horses went hungry Lord knows what she'd do
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'Round Christmas up the Caprock you can see all the towns
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And the courthouses lit up for ten miles around
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It's a magical time to be traveling the roads
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Watch the country roll by in the halogens' glow
 
[Chorus]
 
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I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
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Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
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Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
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Life's just too crazy for that
 
 
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[Bridge]
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She jack knifed on black ice with an oversized load
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There's a white cross in the borrow ditch where she went off the road
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She wasn't going that fast, the responders all say
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How it ended that bad, we can wonder all day
 
 
[Chorus]
 
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I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
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Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
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Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
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Life's just too short for all that
 
 
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I just got two rules, if my conscience be known
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Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home
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Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class
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Life's just too short for all that
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Life's just too short for all that
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for all that
 
[Outro]
 
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