| Well I met him in the navy
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| He was the head of the class
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| She was a cute little thing
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| He liked the way she shook her glass
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| And they went off to texas
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| And they bought some land yeah
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| And they settled in a hobo
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| Home by a taco stand
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| He was doin' things he didn’t understand
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| There was no way to exlain it She was god’s gift to man
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| Well he got a promotion
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| And he bought himself a color tv Had the cable put in And they watched a round of jeopardy
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| And they sat out in the evening
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| And they watched the sun go down
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| And everything they did
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| They were livin' on the outside of town
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| Well the time went by That he didn’t understand
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| She was god’s gift to man
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| Yeah baby tell me, tell me real good
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| Don’t you know that we’re livin' just like a young boy should?
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| Well she went off to houston
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| Where she was livin' in sin
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| Well he built an office building
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| But nobody moved in She wound up in el paso
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| On the streets again
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| It was hard to take it But sometimes you just can’t win
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| It was after a little way
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| That he didn’t understand
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| And couldn’t understand that
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| She was god’s gift to man
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| Well I seen her on tv just a couple of nights ago
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| She was a doin' a commercial
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| Smilin' with some ivory soap
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| Well I knew inside her heart was black as coal
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| There ain’t no way to replace the amount of lovin' that little girl stole
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| Yeah one day she got it comin'
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| And she won’t understand her niche
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| She’s god’s gift to man
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| Yeah I’ve been doin' things that I don’t understand
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| Yeah she’s god’s gift to man
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah
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| Alright, alright, alright |