Man From Bowling Green

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She road a slow train to the city 
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she was young and she was pretty

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A full grown mountain woman that 
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had blossomed in the spring

           C                       
She took a job at waiting tables at
     F
 the House of Seven Gables

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That's where she met the man from
         C
 Bowling Green


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He was somewhat older with hair down
 on his shoulders

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And he knew how to touch a lady 
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and he must have touched her dreams

         F                         
Sung her songs and called her baby 
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till that country girl went crazy

         C              G7     
For that guitar picking man from 
          C
Bowling Green


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Well he got what he was after and 
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after that he left her

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He packed up his guitar caught a 
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westbound train

       C                           
It was just another city where the 
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country girls were pretty

C                    G7    
Easy picking for the man from 
           C
Bowling Green


Well he got what he was after and 
F
after that he left her

C                              
He packed up his guitar caught a 
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westbound train

       C                           
It was just another city where the 
F
country girls were pretty

C                    G7    
Easy picking for the man from 
           C
Bowling Green


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Now her life is twisted like some 
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West Virginia back-road

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And the House of Seven Gables has 
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got a brand new queen

      F                        
To anyone that is buying she’ll 
 C                  F
drink to keep from crying

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For that guitar picking man from 
          C
Bowling Green


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Yes she loved that guitar man 
           C
from Bowling Green