Ballad Of Rosalie

	  		


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She was hanging in a pawn shop in Memphis, TN.  
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She was young & high strung her name was Rosalie, 
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Her neck was long & slender, they said all the pearls are fine, 
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I gave up my wedding ring so I could make her mine, 
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Then she rode with me to Nashville, where we joined a  
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Country band, played a thousand different honky tonks 
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And a thousand one night stands, Thru good times & ss 
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the bad times she gives me company, she made a nice -i 
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sweet home with me my little Rosalie, 
 

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Rosalie, Rosalie, Rosalie, no one else got so close to me 
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Although there has been others, there will never be,  
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Another one quite like my little Rosalie, No there will 
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Never be another one like my Rosalie, 


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Well the money wasn't good, it was few & far between, 
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But then he'd start drinkin' & the fiddle split the scene 
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Old Rosie stood besides me, thru the highs & the lows 
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And I was playing in a band, paying thru the nose 

Solo 

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Well I left her where I found her, and I walked out with a gun 
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I was half cocked & loaded I went looking for someone 
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Then I came back in the springtime, I promised her I would 
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But Rosalie long gone, this time it was for good, 

Chorus         

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Then late last night in the evening, I saw her on T V 
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Another guitar man was a holding my pretty Rosalie, 
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Her neck was long & slender, and her body curves so fine, 
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I weep & now remember when sweet Rosalie was mine,