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Hey porter, hey porter, could you tell me the time? How much longer will it be till we 
that Mason-Dixon line? At daylight wouldn't you tell that engineer to slow it down, or 
still just stop the train 'cause I wanna look around.

Solo
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Hey porter, hey porter, what time did you say? How much longer will it be till
I can see light of day? When we hit Dixie will you tell that engineer to ring
his bell, and ask that ain't asleep to stand right up and yell? Hey porter,
hey porter, i-'s getting light outside. This old train is puffin' smoke and
I have to strain my eyes. But ask that if he would blow his whistle please,
cause I smell frost on cotton leaves and I feel that southern breeze.
Hey porter, hey porter, please get my bags for me. I need by body to
tell me now that we're in Tennessee. Go tell that engineer to make
that lonesome whistle scream. We're not so far from home so take it
easy on the steam. Hey porter, hey porter, please up the door. When
they stop this train I'm gonna get off first 'cause I can't wait no
more. Tell that engineer I said thanks a lot and I didn't mind the
fare. I'm gonna set my feet on southern soil and breathe that southern air.

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Now, I taught the weepin willow how to cry, and I showed the clouds how
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to cover up a clear blue sky, but the tears that I cried for that woman
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are gonna flood you, big river, and I'm gonna sit right here until I 
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die.  I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota, and it tore me up
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every time I heard her drawl, southern drawl.  Then I heard my dream 
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went back downstream, cavortin in Davenport, and I followed you, big
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river, when you called.

Then you took me to St. Louis later on down the river.  A freighter said
said she's been here, but she's gone, boy, she's gone.  I found her 
trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the bluff, she raised a few 
eyebrows and then she went on down alone.  Now won't you bide it down by
Baton Rouge, river queen rollin on.  Take that woman on down to New 
Orleans, New Orleans.  Go on, I've had enough, dump my blues down in the
gulf.  She loves you big river more than me.  Now, I taught the weepin
willow how to cry, cry, cry, and I showed the clouds how to cover up a 
clear blue sky, and the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna 
flood you big river, and I'm gonna sit right here until I die.

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Well, you ask me if I'll forget my baby
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I guess I will some day
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I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

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You ask me if I'll get along
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I guess I will some way
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I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

CHORUS:
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God gave me that girl to lean on, then he put me on my own
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Heaven help me be a man and have the strength to stand alone
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I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

You ask me if I'll miss her kisses
I guess I will every day
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

You ask me if I'll find another
I don't know, I can't say
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way

CHORUS

INTRO: 
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Love Is A Burning Thing
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And It Makes A Firery Ring
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Bound By Wild Desire
              C       G
I Fell Into A Ring Of Fire

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I Fell Into A Burning Ring Of Fire
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I Went Down, Down, Down
        C           G
And The Flames Went Higher

And It Burns, Burns, Burns
    C       G
The Ring Of Fire
    C       G
The Ring Of Fire

Repeat INTRO Twice
Repeat CHORUS

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The Taste Of Love Is Sweet
                 C    G
When Hearts Like Ours Meet
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I Fell For You Like A Child
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Ohh, But The Fire Went Wild

Repeat CHORUS
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And It Burns, Burns, Burns
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The Ring Of Fire
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The Ring Of Fire

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My daddy left home when I was three
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And he didn't leave much to Ma and me
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Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
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Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid
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But the meanest thing that he ever did
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Was before he left, he went and named me 'Sue.'


Well, he must o' thought that is was quite a joke
And it got a lot of laughs from a' lots of folk,
It seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I'd get red
And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head,
I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named 'Sue.'

Well, I grew up quick and I grew up mean,
My fist got hard and my wits got keen,
I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame.
But I made me a vow to the moon and stars
That I'd search the honky-tonks and bars
And kill that man that give me that awful name.

Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July
And I just hit town and my throat was dry,
I thought I'd stop and have myself a brew.
At an old saloon on a street of mud,
There at a table, dealing stud,
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me 'Sue.'

Well, I knew that snake was my own sweet dad
From a worn-out picture that my mother'd had,
And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye.
He was big and bent and gray and old,
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold
And I said: "My name is 'Sue!' how do you do! Now you gonna die!"

Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he went down but, to my surprise,
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear.
But I busted a chair right across his teeth
And we crashed through the wall and into the street
Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer.

I tell ya, I've fought tougher men
But I really can't remember when,
He kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile.
I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss,
He went for his gun and I pulled mine first,
He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile.

And he said: "Son, this world is rough
And if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough
And I know I wouldn't be there to help ya along.
So I give ya that name and I said good-bye
I knew you'd have to get tough or die
And it's that name that helped to make you strong."

He said: 'Now you just fought one hell of a fight
And I know you hate me, and you got the right
To kill me now, and I wouldn't blame you if you do.
But ya ought to thank me, before I die,
For the gravel in ya guts and the spit in ya eye
Cause I'm the son-of-a-bitch that named you 'Sue'.'

I got all choked up and I threw down my gun
And I called him my pa, and he called me his son,
And I come away with a different point of view.
And I think about him, now and then,
Every time I try and every time I win,
And if I ever have a son, I think I'm gonna name him
Bill or George! Anything but sue! I still hate that name!

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I went out walking through the streets paved with gold

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Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones of a city without a soul
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Where the ground won't turn and the rain, it burns
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Like the tears when I said goodbye


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Yeah I went with nothing, nothing but the thought of you
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I went wandering

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I went drifting through the capitals of tin
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Where men can't walk or freely talk and sons turn their fathers in
I stopped outside a church house where the citizens like to sit
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They say they want the kingdom, but they don't want GOD in it
I went out riding down that old eight lane
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I passed by a thousand signs looking for my own name
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I went with nothing, but the thought you'd be there too
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Looking for you
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I went out there in search of experience
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To taste and to touch and to feel as much 
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As a man can before he repents
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I went out searching, looking for one good man
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A spirit who would not bend or break
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Who would sit at his father's right hand
I went out walking with a bible and a gun
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The Word of GOD lay heavy on my heart, I was sure I was the one
Now Jesus, don't You wait up, Jesus, I'll be home soon
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Yeah I went out for the papers, told her I'd be back by noon
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Yeah I left with nothing, but the thought you'd be there too
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Looking for you
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Yeah I left with nothing, nothing but the thought of you
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I went wandering

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INTRO
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Delia, oh Delia, Delia all my life
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If I hadn't-a shot poor Delia, I'd have had her for my wife
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Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

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I went up to Memphis, and I met Delia there
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Found her in her parlor, and I tied her to her chair
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Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone 

She was low-down and travellin', and she was cold and mean
Kind of evil make me want to grab my sub-machine
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

First time I shot her, I shot her in the side
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

But jailer, oh jailer, jailer I can't sleep
'Cuz all around my bedside I hear the patter of Delia's feet
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

So if your woman's devilish, you can let her run
Or you can bring her down and do her like Delia got done
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

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Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone

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Chorus: Strumming

Intro:	
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Verse 1
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I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel,
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I focus all the pain, the only thing that's real,
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The needle tears a hole, the old familiar stain, 
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Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything.


Chorus
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What have I become, my sweetest friend, 
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Everyone one I know, goes away in the end, 
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And you could have it all, my empire of dirt, 
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I will let you down, I will make you hurt.

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Verse 2
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I wear this crown of thorns, upon my liars chair,
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Full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair,
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Beneath the stains of time, the feelings disappear,
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You are someone else, I am still right here.


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If I could start again, a million miles away,
Am              F   G
I will keep myself, I would find a way.