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Ann Marie lives in Kansas City
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She's a christian, she loves living there
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She said, "I'm flying back to Brooklyn"
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Rolls her eyes and fixes her hair
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Cleans houses with mom for work
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Goes to school and dreams of dirt
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Strives and tries to live life plain
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But a loss of love sure can make you mean
CHORUS:
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How can I begin to guess
D#m A#m
The life and times of a wedding dress
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Bright and shiny like the sun
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Then sealed away like a secret shotgun
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Bright and shiny like the sun
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Then sealed away like a secret shotgun
INTERLUDE: F# G# C# F# G# C#
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Jerry Gobel is an auto mechanic
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Born and raised just outside the seam
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Bright eyes in a jungle city
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He never could really love Ann Marie
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How could I begin to guess, he said
D#m A#m
The life and times of a wedding dress
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Bright and shiny like the sun
D#m G# A#m
Then sealed away like a secret shotgun
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Bright and shiny like the sun
D#m G# A#m
Then sealed away like a secret shotgun, shotgun
INSTRUMENTAL: F# G# C# F# G# C# F# G# C#
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Grandma's a Pentecostal
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Goes to church 'most every day
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Ann Marie and her baby, Mikey
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D# new reason to live and pray
CHORUS:
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How could I begin to guess
D#m A#m
The life and times of a wedding dress
F# C# G# C#
Bright and shiny like the sun
D#m G# A#m
Then sealed away like a secret shotgun
F# C# G# C#
Bright and shiny like the sun
D#m G# C#
Then sealed away like a secret shotgun, shotgun