Yonder Mountain String Band - Steep Grade Sharp Curves

      [Intro]  
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[Verse]
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About three miles from border town, the California-Nevada line
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The morning sun does rise and fall, and the midnight wind it does whistle and wind
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Like a dust cloud from the flatland with the force of the mountain behind
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Stood in front of me, a vision to see, with her thumb aimed to the sky
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Yes she jumped inside and spoke her name, Cecelia Dee from Abilene
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I caught her eye, as I was hypnotized, like a fire fed with kerosene
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Just one look, that was all it took, I was trying to put up a good fight but I was hooked
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“Down the road a way” she said to me, “and then we'll see how far we go”

[Chorus]
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Steep grade, sharp curves, a treacherous stretch of highway
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Put me in a tailspin that I just might never get out of
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Steep grade, sharp curves, said she was going my way
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Wishin' now till my dying day that I had never believed her

[Verse]
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There began the night of my life with the cheap cocaine and neon lights
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My vision, my lungs, and reality blurred, no heaven or hell, no wrong or right
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Stuck my face to her hands and kissed me like none ever before
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Said do what you want, do what you will, but don't you dare leave me tonight

[Chorus]
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Steep grade, sharp curves, a treacherous stretch of highway
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Put me in a tailspin that I just might never get out of
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Steep grade, sharp curves, said she was going my way
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Wishin' now till my dying day that I had never believed her

[Verse]
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Now it's three days later the time doesn't matter, just tell me where's my watch and my cash
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Forgive me please for how I might have behaved, for I can't seem to remember what happened last
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She was like a dream, one heaven scheme, Cecelia Dee from Abilene
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Last thing I remember she was smilin' like the devil and laughing like all hell
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As she rode out of sight

[Chorus]
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Steep grade, sharp curves, a treacherous stretch of highway
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Put me in a tailspin that I just might never get out of
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Steep grade, sharp curves, said she was going my way
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Wishin' now till my dying day that I had never believed her

[Outro]
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woo ooooh ooooh
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Wishin' now till my dying day that I had never believed her