Sierra

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    In the desert, where the 
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cities are made of gold,
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there's a girl playing hopscotch 
        F            C
with pink ribbon pigtails.
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     And her mom calls out from 
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an apartment balcony,
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"Come on, baby! your bath is 
        F                C
ready! it's almost time for sleep!"

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    And i wonder, who's the 
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father...
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     and i wonder what they call 
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her
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Sierra

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     does her mother smoke or 
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does she jog every morning?
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does she drink when she thinks 
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about me, or doesn't she need to 
drink?
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       does she have a man who 
F           C
works a 9 to 5
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             G                 Am 
does he come home to kiss our 
                    F            C
young sierra, tuck her in and say 
goodnight?

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     and an extra kiss for 
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mama...
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     i want that kiss, that kid, 
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that apartment

     F               C
i'm ready to settle down now
    Am              G
so get that man out of my bed
   F                Am
i want my daughter back now
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i want to kiss her, tuck her in, 
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and say, "goodnight, my baby girl"
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sierra

Am        Em        F        C
   sierra    sierra   sierra   
sierra

      G        Am
i'll never know who you are
    F                  C
and i don't deserve to

Am        Em        F        C
   sierra    sierra   sierra   
sierra

    G
my little girl
     Am               F   
we would have been so...oh, 
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nevermind

         F                Am
but i'm ready to settle down now
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yeah i'm ready to leave that 
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wrecking ball behind
F                  Am
I could be your carpenter,
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and you could be my twinkling 
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north star o'er the desert sky.