Break the rules (video)

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1. Spent a long, long evening in a low-down honky tonk bar,

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pulled a low down lady with a long black honky tonk car.

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I asked no questions, got no lies, I walked off with her,

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I didn’t want any ties, and I knew it wasn’t right,

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but everybody has to sometimes break the rules.

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2. Took me down on the highway, doin’ too many miles an hour,

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by that way she motor-talked, we might have made the Eiffel tower.

C

She stopped her motor by her own front door, I knew she’d done it

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so many times before, and I was offered the floor,

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but everybody has to sometimes break the rules.

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G

3. I woke up next morning, feeling kind of up and down,

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’cause I did not know if I was in or out of town.

C

Then I saw the face from the night before, purse was empty

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and lying there on the floor, but like I told you before,

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but everybody has to sometimes break the rules.

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4. Spent a low-down evening , sitting high on a honky tonk stool,

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and I spent my money like a low-down honky tonk fool.

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But everybody has to sometimes break the rules.

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but everybody has to sometimes break the rules.

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but everybody has to sometimes break the rules.

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