WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD
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Put a dead cat on the railroad tracks
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Where the wolf-bane's blooming by the trestle
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and get the eyeball of a rooster and the stones from a ditch
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and wash 'em down with bilge water and say you'll never snitch
[Verse]
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Take the buttons from a yellow jacket and the feathers from a buzzard
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and the blood from a bounty hunter's cold black heart
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Catch the tears of a widow in a thimble made of glass
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tell your mama and papa they can kiss your ass
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Poison all the water in the wishin' well
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and hang all them scarecrows from a sycamore tree
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Burn down them honeymoons put 'em in a pillow case
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And wait next to the switch blades at the amusement park for me
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Strangle all the Christmas carols scratch out all your prayers
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Tie 'em up with barbed wire and push them down the stairs
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I'll whittle you a pistol for keeping nightmares of the blinds
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Those sunsabitches always seem to sneak up from behind
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Syphon all the gas from your daddy's pickup truck
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Fill up Johnny's T-Bird I got a couple of bucks
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Put a little perfume and a ribbon in your hair
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Be careful that you don't wake up the hounds
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Tear a bolt of lightning off the side of the sky
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And throw it in a cedar chest if you want I'll tell you why
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Bring the gear shift knob from a 49 Merc
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and lay down here beside me let me hold you in the dirt
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We're gonna tremble tear the throat out of the night
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Sink your teeth into my shoulder dig your nails into my back
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Tell that little girl to let go of my sleeve
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You'll be a woman when I catch you, come, baby, fall in love with me
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With my double barrel shotgun and a whole box of shells
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We'll celebrate the 4th of July
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We'll do a hundred miles per hour spendin' someone else's dough
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And drive all the way to Reno on the wrong si - de of the road
