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Put a dea[(Bbm)]d cat on the rai[(Eb9)]lroad tracks
Where the wolf[(Bbm)]-bane's blooming by the tre[(Eb9)]stle
and get the eyeball of a rooster and the stones from a ditch
and wash ‘em down with bilge water and say you’ll never snitch

Take the but[(Bbm)]tons from a yellow jacket and the fea[(Eb9)]thers from a buzzard
and the blo[(Bbm)]od from a bounty hunter’s cold[(Eb9)] black heart
Catch the tears of a widow in a thimble made of glass
tell your mama and papa they can kiss your ass

Poi[(Bbm)]son all the water in the wis[(Eb9)]hin’ well
and han[(Bbm)]g all them scarecrows from a syc[(Eb9)]amore tree
Burn down them honeymoons put ‘em in a pillow case
And wait next to the switch blades at the amusement park for me

Str[(Bbm)]angle all the Christmas carols scr[(Eb9)]atch out all your prayers
Tie[(Bbm)] ‘em up with barbed wire and pus[(Eb9)]h them down the stairs
I’ll whittle you a pistol for keeping nightmares of the blinds
Those sunsabches always seem to sneak up from behind

Syp[(Bbm)]hon all the gas from your dad[(Eb9)]dy’s pickup truck
Fil[(Bbm)]l up Johnny’s T-Bird I got[(Eb9)] a couple of bucks
Put a little perfume and a ribbon in your hair
Be careful that you don’t wake up the hounds

Tea[(Bbm)]r a bolt of lightning off the sid[(Eb9)]e of the sky
And thr[(Bbm)]ow it in a cedar chest if you wan[(Eb9)]t I’ll tell you why
Bring the gear shift knob from a 49 Merc
and lay down here beside me let me hold you in the dirt

W[(Bbm)]e’re gonna tremble tear the thr[(Eb9)]oat out of the night
Sink your tee[(Bbm)]th into my shoulder dig your nai[(Eb9)]ls into my back
Tell that little girl to let go of my sleeve
You’ll be a woman when I catch you, come, baby, fall in love with me

With my doub[(Bbm)]le barrel shotgun and a who[(Eb9)]le box of shells
We’ll cel[(Bbm)]ebrate the 4th[(Eb9)] of July
We’ll do a hundred miles per hour spendin’ someone else’s dough
And drive all the way to Reno on the wrong si – de of the road