Two Gallants - Fail Hard to Regain

      

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 Tuning: standard
 
 The intro and the last two lines of each verse are palm muted.
 
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 Well once I knew a railway girl
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 Her age was seventeen
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 I gave her all I had to give
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 But the baggage of my dreams
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 Stole me from the games we played
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 Scorned me for my mast
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 And if she's gone she lingers on
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 I beg you please don't ask
 
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 T'was on her dark March evening
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 Southbound I did ride
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 My head was out the window
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 When I found her at my side
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 Asked where I was going to
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 I told but where I came
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 For the jails in which I've done my time
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 I fail hard to regain
 
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 Dark girl, dark girl it kills me so
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 To watch you so afraid
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 You know that you've been real to those
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 When realness should be feigned
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 Her eyes gone wide, "Alive," she cried
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 Does pleasure ever last?
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 We live to see, but patiently
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 I beg you please don't ask
 
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 She took me in despite my sins
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 Fed me tea and such
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 And as she fell just like a child
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 I crumbled 'neath her touch
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 I held my breath in fear to weep
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 For the fragments of my brain
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 See each day's but a moment that
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 I fail hard to regain
 
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 But as it goes the people it throws
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 Our values to the street
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 Whole world came and saint's gaze
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 Impatience in his feet
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 And captives of this paltry trade
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 We curse our mortal past
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 Forgive us though we all must go
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 And where to please don't ask
 
 repear chords for last verse without lyrics
 
 last verse palm muted
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 And now I am a misspent man
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 Who knows not where he's been
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 And though so sapped with suffering
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 The worst is yet unseen
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 Renounce myself for further wealth
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 I take each breath in vain
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 Still haunted by that railway girl
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 I fail hard to regain
 
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