Chords for Mary Gauthier "Drag Queens In Limousines"

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_ _ _ _ I hated high school, _ _ I prayed [C] it _ _ wouldn't _ _ _ _ _
_ _ The jocks and their girls, it was their world I didn't [F] fit _ in _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Mama said, baby, that's the best school money [Bb] can buy
_ _ You _ _ _ _ [C] be strong, _ hold your head up, _ _ _ please Mary, [F] try
_ So _ _ _ _ _ _ I stole Mama's car on a Sunday, left home [C] for good
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_ _ _ Moved in with my friends in the city and a [Am] [F] bad neighbor _
_ _ Charles _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
was a dancer, _ he loved [Bb] the ballet _
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_ _ _ [C] _ Kimmy sold pie, she read Kerouac and him [F] egg white
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And drag [Bb] queens and _ limousines, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] nuns in blue jeans _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] Dreamers with _ big dreams, _ _ they _ all [F] took me
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Charlie and I, we flipped burgers to cover [C] the rent
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_ _ And _ bourbons at happy hour for 35 [F] _ cents
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_ _ One day before work, we got drunk _ and [Am] danced [Bb] in the rain
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So [C] they fired us both, they said don't ever come [F] back again
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But drag [Bb] queens and _ limousines, _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] nuns in blue _ jeans _ _ _ _
_ Dreamers [C] with big dreams, _ _ they _ all [F] took me _
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My [F] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ daddy went to college, _ then he worked for [C] the state _
He _ _ _ _ _ _ _ never quit nothing, and he wanted _ [Am] me to [F] graduate _ _
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_ My brother and sister _ play in [Am] the marching [Bb] band _
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_ _ [C] _ tell me they miss me, but I know they don't [F] understand _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] Sometimes _ _ [C] you gotta [Bb] do what you gotta [F] do _
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_ _ [C] And pray that the people you love will catch up [F] with you
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And drag [Bb] queens and _ limousines, _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] nuns in blue _ jeans _ _ _ _
_ Dreamers [C] with _ big dreams, _ _ _ _ poets, [F] A-1 _ _ Marines _ _
_ _ [Bb] Actors in bar _ class, _ _ _ writers _ [F] with dark hats _ _ _ _
_ Drunks [C] that _ _ philosophize _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] These _ _ _ _ _ _
are _ _ _ my _ _ friends _ _
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