Dance Hall Girls

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by: Tom Russell

written by: Fraser & DeBolt

These dance hall girls, they'll treat you kind

They'll give you their bodies, but you'll never touch their minds

They'll fill you up, with lipstick lies

Then they'll put you down son

Don't be surprised

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

I held her mountains, I kissed her plains

I touched her sunshine, Lord then I drank her rains

But I went too far, I broke too fast

I thought I had a winner picked

But I came in last, again

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

Refrain:

I must have chosen the wrong season to come down

I never realized they call this sacred ground

My sense of time, hell I'm a week behind

I sent a letter home, but this all takes time you know

I gotta get some money, I wanna go back home

But these dance hall girls

Know how to make a man feel alone

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

Solo: Play through one verse

Repeat Refrain

My sense of time, hell I'm a week behind

They'll give you their bodies, but you'll never touch their minds

They'll fill you up, with lipstick lies

These dance hall girls say

They can't stand to see a grown man cry

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

Is this the way it always is here in Montreal?

Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

>From the album Song Of The West - The Cowboy Collection 1997 BMG/Hightone Records

Transcribed by: Greg Yuriy

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