Cigarettes and Wine
By: Jason Isbell
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Saw her in Roosevelt Springs
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time doesn't touch anything
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she never did say she could sing
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but I figured it so
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I needed some company then
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not sisters or children again
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that's a hell of a spot to be in
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but she put me in tow
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Money and liquor and lust
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have taken my heart and my trust
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I could see ashes of dust
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headed my way
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She tended bar in town
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her alto settled me down
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so I started hanging around
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didn't need much to say
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She smelled like cigarettes and wine
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she kept me happy all the time
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I know that ain't much of a line
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but it's the God's own truth
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she lives down inside of me still
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rolled up like a twenty dollar bill
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she left me alone with these pills
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and the last of my youth
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Wings on her shoulders and feet
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a bar on Gethsemane street
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I took time to plan retreat
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backed out the door
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I must be attracted to those
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who've witnessed a man in the throes
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Of life that ain't grindstone to nose,
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but pedal to floor
D7 G
She smelled like cigarettes and wine
D
she kept me happy all the time
A A7
I know that ain't much of a line
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but it's the God's own truth
G
she lives down inside of me still
D
rolled up like a twenty dollar bill
A A7
she left me alone with these pills
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and my smoldering youth
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Lost on the dry side of town
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My memories slowing me down
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She shook me and I came around
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I came back to life
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With nary a mother or dad
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She showed me what I never had
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Now the princess leaves, she gets sad
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'Cause I won't take a wife
D7 G
She smelled like cigarettes and wine
D
she kept me happy all the time
A A7
I know that ain't much of a line
D D7
but it's the God's own truth
G
she lives down inside of me still
D
rolled up like a twenty dollar bill
A A7
she left me alone with these pills
D
and the last of my youth
