| Put on your long black morning gown
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| Get on your crazy horse crown
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| Sat here watching oh a dead man blow
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| It’s cold outside riding the winter snow
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| And if it comes tomorrow
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| And if it comes today
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| I don’t see this working out
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| With the one that got away
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| The scatter roller’s coming down
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| Summer’s been and turned around
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| It don’t seem so long ago
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| That you were my precious cargo
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| The scatter roller’s coming down
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| Summer’s been and turned around
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| It don’t seem so long ago
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| That you were my precious cargo
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| My precious cargo, my precious cargo
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| The truth is stacked in this deck of cards
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| A promise lost wrapped in these ivory barbs
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| Elizabeth sings oh she’s my queen of hearts
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| Souls of men die and actors pick up the parts
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| If it comes tomorrow
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| If it comes today
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| I don’t see this working out
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| With the one that got away
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| The scatter roller’s coming down
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| Summer’s been and turned around
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| It don’t seem so long ago
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| That you were my precious cargo
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| The scatter roller’s coming down
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| Summer’s been and turned around
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| It don’t seem so long ago
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| That you will always be my precious cargo
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| My precious cargo
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| You’ll always be my precious cargo
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| If it comes tomorrow
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| If it comes today
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| I don’t see this working out
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| With the one that got away
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| The scatter roller’s coming down
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| Oh my booty’s back around
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| It don’t seem so long ago
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| That you were my precious cargo
 | 
| The scatter roller’s coming down
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| Summer’s been and turned around
 | 
| It don’t seem so long ago
 | 
| That you were my precious cargo
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| The scatter roller’s coming down
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| Summer’s been and gone around
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| It don’t seem so long ago
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| You were my precious precious cargo |