Dance Hall Girls

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These dance hall girls,  they'll treat you kind 
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They'll give you their bodies, but you'll never touch their minds 
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They'll fill you up,  with lipstick lies 
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Then they'll put you down son 
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Don't be surprised 
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Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore? 
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I held her mountains, I kissed her plains 
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I touched her sunshine, Lord then I drank her rains 
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But I went too far, I broke too fast 
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I thought I had a winner picked 
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But I came in last, again 
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Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore? 
***Refrain: 
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I must have chosen the wrong season to come down 
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I never realized they call this sacred ground 
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My sense of time, hell I'm a week behind 
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I sent a letter home,  but this all takes time you know 
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I gotta get some money,  I wanna go back home 
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But these dance hall girls 
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Know how to make a man feel alone 
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Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore? 
 
***Solo Plays through one verse 
**play refrian 
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My sense of time, hell I'm a week behind C                                  F                        C 
They'll give you their bodies, but you'll never touch their minds 
        F        C   F              Em   F 
They'll fill you up,  with lipstick lies 
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These dance hall girls say 
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They can't stand to see a grown man cry 
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Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore? 
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Is this the way it always is here in Montreal? 
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Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore? 
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