White Satin Bed

	  		
Intro  
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Verse 
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Hangin' on to every nickel and every dime  
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Never had a dollar to call mine 
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I gotta work tomorrow just to pay for the day 
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Well I worked all that I can stand now I long for the day 

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Then I can sleep in my white satin bed  
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With a red velvet pillow for my head 
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They'll lower me into my grave with gropes of gold and bread 
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And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed 


Verse 
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Well I never had no soft warm bed before 
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Just a cold park bench or a boxcar floor 
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Thumbin' north to the coal mines or south to cotton fields 
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Oh hangin' on it won't be long, till I'll know how it feels 

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To sleep in my white satin bed 
               D                 E 
With a red velvet pillow for my head 
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They'll lower me into my grave with gropes of gold and bread 
     A                         E               A 
And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed 


Outro 
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Yes I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed