Turnpike Troubadours - Angola

      Angola
Turnpike Troubadours

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well I was born in Bossier Parish, in Northern Louisian?
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Just a few miles south of Fillmore where my daddy owned some land
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And we were thick as a pair of thieves, my buddy Jack and me
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Drinkin? beer and playin? football, fishin? on them creeks

[Chorus]
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Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know
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Lord I just turned 21, and there?s no chance of parole
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And I?m doin? life for murder, in this penitentiary
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Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein? free

[Solo]
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[Verse 2]
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We graduated high school, back in ?98
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Tried to live the clean life, but the clean life didn?t pay
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Then a friend of a friend of a friend of ours had a way to make ends meet
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And he gave us a crash course, in southern chemistry

[Chorus]
       C                                   G
Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know
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Lord I just turned 21, and there?s no chance of parole
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And I?m doin? life for murder, in this penitentiary
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Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein? free

[Solo]
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[Verse 3]
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And then one day it happened, and the wild men got the call
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And Jackie he?d been talkin?, with the local law
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They stuck him nearly fifty times and dumped him in the creek
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When the sheriff?s found the body, they pointed their bloody hands at me

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And I got a tattoo on my shoulder, I got a number on my chest
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The tattoo just says ?Hot?, and that?s the place I love the best, yeah

[Outro]
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