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I've got something that my baby wants
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And I've got something that my baby wants
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And she's got something that I want too
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Baby and I are through
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I've been down to the bottom
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With a bad, bad man
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Down to the bottom, babe
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With a bad, bad man
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Cm
Lay me down with your gentle hand
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G Fm G
Well, he said this darkness, it was untrue
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And first he said this darkness
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Darlin', it was untrue
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And that there was no light to be found in you
[Chorus]
G Cm
But I know, darlin', that that's not true
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G
And I had a dream so black
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That I could not tell
G
Oh, honey, I had a dream so dark
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That I could not tell
[Chorus]
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But I know that's just as well
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[Verse]
G
And I don't know, babe
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Just where you've been
G
I don't know, darlin'
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Just where you've been
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But I've hung myself heavy here
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Babe, I don't know where the hell I am
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G
I thought that man, babe
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He might have something that I need
I thought that man, darlin'
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He might have something that I need
[Chorus]
G# G
But he had no anger
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For you or for me
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And, babe, I swear
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That man never even knew I was here
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G
Some of these friends of mine
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How I miss them so
G
Good Lord, these sweet friends of mine
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How I miss them so
[Chorus]
G# G
But some of these, others beg
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Well they're driving me around
On some cold, dark, and strange
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And deathly roads
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G
Take me down to your river
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I want to see how it runs
G
Down to your river, darlin'
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I want to know just how it runs
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But if that man waits on the path
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Then I know for good that I'm done
G
And I got a feeling
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That man, he's just begun