| I once had a sweetheart the fairest of maidens
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| She outshined all others that I’d known by far
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| I had me a friend named Big Harlan Taylor Harlan had a rubber tied new shiny car
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| All the ways of the world and the wants of a woman
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| If I figured them all up it could take many years
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| By the wants of a woman she fell for Big Harlan
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| I tried but in vain for to take my own life
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| Suddenly I had lost all my will to keep living
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| She’d lost her desire to become my young wife
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| All the ways of the world…
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| Well I wanted revenge and we laid for Big Harlan
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| Then I started wondering what good would it do
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| If a rubber tied new shiny car’s her ambition
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| And I just let her hat and Big Harlan too
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| All the ways of the world…
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| If I figured them all up it could take many years |