Fire and smoke (US Country 1, 81)     (video)

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1. In and out of honky tonks from one town to the next,

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but anything worth loving, Lord's, just too hard to forget.

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Every day's another way of feeling more the same,

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looks like I'll run out of highway, before I outrun the rain.

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But if there's fire and smoke, ooh, what a rush I got

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when your love was hot, oh, but I couldn't see.

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That when the flame burned out, you'd leave a cold dark cloud,

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a raining down on me. + C - G - Am - C - D

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2. So I'm reaching out to someone wishing she was you instead,

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everything I left behind was waiting up ahead.

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Pulling on the bottom, baby, looking back on you,

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any way's the right way, babe, as long as I pull through.

+ CHORUS

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+ Yeah, when the flame burned out, you'd leave a cold dark cloud

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a raining down, a raining down on me !

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+ Down one me ! (3x) ….

(Earl Thomas Conley)