Jamie Lenman - Shotgun House

      [Verse 1]
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Back in the 19th century on southern US land
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They built a simple kind of house, and many still do stand
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The people called them 'shotgun house', from the African word "to-gun"
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Just three or four rooms back-to-back, and I'm-a get me one, son.

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When I get my shotgun house, you can visit all the time
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I will move from back porch to front room by walking a straight line
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Oh, when I buy my shotgun house that will be something fine
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I will finally have a place I can call mine

[Verse 2]
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Now, yes, I am an English man - from Oxford, if you please
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But when it comes to settling down, I may look overseas
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For I have travelled far and wide, to places foul and fair
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But I have loved America since I was married there, yeah

[Chorus]
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When I get my shotgun house, you can visit all the time
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I will move from back porch to front room by walking a straight line
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Oh now, just to own a shotgun house would be a splendid thing
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I will sing the way my daddy used to sing

On the banks M-I, double S-I, double S-I, P-P-I