Tonalité : C major
Verse 1
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Mothers, I want you to get all
of your teenagers together
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and gather them around the radio.
I want to tell you a little story.
There was a girl that left a good home
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C
to go out on her own.
She wanted to see the world, yes,
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Am
and have a lot of fun.
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But she didn't know right then, yeah,
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that she would meet a man,
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C
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a man called King Heroin
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Now her mother, she cried,
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and walked right by her side
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Said, honey, please don't go,
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please don't go, honey
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But in her fullest pride,
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Dm
she pushed her mother aside
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She said, Mother, I'm old enough to know
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Now let me talk to you a little bit
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It was at a midnight ramble
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She met a man called King Heroin
He whispered in her ear
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In smooth tones so low
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Now listen to him
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F
In his deadly charm
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Sayin' give me your arm,
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let me take you higher
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than you've ever been before
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Let me show you where
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they went from there
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F
Oh, to New York, and to, yeah,
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the boardwalk
To the south side of Chicago,
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and many a southern town
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F
She made California and Flagstaff,
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Am
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Arizon a
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Never thought of going back home
Now let me talk to you a little bit more
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Dm
Now the news reached down in Reno
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Am
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To come on home at once
But home your darling mother
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is laying there dying.
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You know what young folks,
she could go right there, ah yeah,
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Dm
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she had to pay a man,
Am
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a man called King Heroin,
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one more thing I want to tell you
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She left Reno, Nevada, yeah
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Tryin' to form a ride
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No one helped her
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They just pushed her aside
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But she wasn't through just yet
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She had one final debt
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Oh, to a man called King Heroin
Now this is about the end of it, listen
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On Route 66
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A cold body lies
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No one knows her name
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Oh yeah
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But I know found energy
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Dm
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Geez, though tragic it may seem
Rhythm of me,
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I'm comin' home
Outro 1
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