Still doin’ time    (video)

 

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1. Has it been a year since the last time I’ve seen her ?

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    My God I could swear it was ten !

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    And the ocean of liquor I drank to forget her

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    is gonna kill me but I’ll drink till then.

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    I’ve been living in hell with a bar for a cell,

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    still paying for my cheating crime,

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    oh, and I’ve got a long way to go, still doing time.

 

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Still doing time in a honky tonk prison,

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still doing time where a man has forgiven.

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My poor heart is breaking, but there’s no escaping,

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each morning I wake up and I find still doing time.

 

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2. Oh, when you’re caught cheating twice,

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    it’s twenty to life in a place where the sun never shines.

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    And tomorrow you’re gonna find me right here still doing time.

 

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+  CHORUS     +  A         +  Still doing time.

           

(orig. = capo 1st)    (George Jones)