Mineral Wells

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***Intro: 
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She was livin' in a cadillac 
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Bedded down in the back seat 
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On a back street of the Hollywood hills 
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With a shoebox museum of memories 
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Old photos and medical bills 
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She'd been a great actress in two dozen movies 
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Played Shakespeare on the great London stage 
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Before the three husbands, six kids and bad breaks 
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Of fifty-eight odd years of age 
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Him they called fat boy wore grey overalls 
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And he clocked in at four hundred pounds 
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With a passion for food and film magazines 
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He'd been a great critic downtown 
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He'd seen all her movies, worshipped her face 
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Heard her story and took her on in 
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Though she bore no resemblance to the star he adored 
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The film's over before real life begins 
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She told him of a fountain of youth  
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In the hot Texas earth 
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It'll heal and renew us 
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It's somewhere west of Fort Worth 
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And she met Errol Flynn there 
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In the Crazy Water Hotel 
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And they danced down the street 
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells 
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So they boarded a greyhound in search of the fountain 
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Fat boy and the aging film queen 
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Through the Great Painted Desert and all across Texas 
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Amarillo plain to Abilene 
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They got off in Fort Worth for a fresh cup of coffee 
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Caught the local to old Mineral Wells 
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And it dropped them in front of that boarded up palace 
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Called the Crazy Water Hotel 
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Disillusioned they found a cheap room off the highway 
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Drank vodka from a styrofoam cup 
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There'd be no healing return to the past 
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The fountain of youth had dried up 
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So the critic and the film star held hands and drank vodka 
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As the great Texas sun rose and fell 
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And drunk but still dreaming they waltzed down the street 
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells 
***Repeat Chorus 
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They danced down the street 
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In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells